Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 59

V. Scott mentions a story in "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," vol. ii. p. 223, of a widower who believed he was haunted by his dead wife.

Who acts: V., widower, dead wife · What happens: mention, believe, haunt · To what, where: story, Minstrelsy, V. · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (V., widower, dead wife), 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	V.	V.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mentions	nsubj
2	Scott	Scott	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 V.	flat
3	mentions	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mentions	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 Minstrelsy	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Minstrelsy	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Minstrelsy	det
9	Minstrelsy	Minstrelsy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Border	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Border	det
12	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Border	amod
13	Border	Border	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Minstrelsy	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 p.	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 vol.	punct
16	vol.	vol.	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 p.	compound
17	ii	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	16 vol.	flat
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 vol.	punct
19	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mentions	conj
20	223	223	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 p.	flat
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 widower	punct
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 widower	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 widower	det
24	widower	widower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mentions	obl
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 believed	nsubj
26	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 widower	acl:relcl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 haunted	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 haunted	aux:pass
29	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 believed	ccomp
30	by	by	ADP	_	33 wife	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wife	nmod:poss
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wife	amod
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 haunted	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mentions	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mention speech: other	present	V.	a story	the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border	of a widower	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent story=Topic
2	believe	past	a widower				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	haunt	past · passive	V.'s dead wife	V.			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

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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