Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 53
Having got into the church, she looked--and saw her betrothed standing beside a grave and devouring a dead body--for a corpse had been left for that night in the church.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: have, get, look, see, betroth, stand · To what, where: church, grave, dead body · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 looked | advcl |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 church | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 church | det |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 betrothed | nsubj |
| 13 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 betrothed | advcl |
| 15 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 grave | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 grave | det |
| 17 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 standing | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 devouring | cc |
| 19 | devouring | devour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 standing | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 body | det |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 body | amod |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 devouring | obj |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 left | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 corpse | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 corpse | det |
| 26 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 left | obl |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 left | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 left | aux:pass |
| 29 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 betrothed | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 night | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 night | det |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 left | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 church | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 church | det |
| 35 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 left | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | stranger not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | participle | stranger not said here | the church | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into church=Destination | ||||
| 3 | look | past | stranger | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | past | stranger not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | betroth | past | stranger | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | stand | gerund | stranger not said here | a grave | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside grave=Location | ||||
| 7 | devour | gerund | stranger not said here | a dead body | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 8 | leave | past · perfect · passive | stranger not said here | night | in the church result; for a corpse | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: in church=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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