Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 63
Here the fiend enters the corpse, or rather its skin, probably intending to reappear as a vampire.
Who acts: fiend · What happens: enter, intend, reappear · To what, where: corpse
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 (fiend), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 enters | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fiend | det |
| 3 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enters | nsubj |
| 4 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 corpse | det |
| 6 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enters | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 skin | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 skin | cc |
| 9 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 11 skin | advmod |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 skin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enters | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 intending | punct |
| 13 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 14 intending | advmod |
| 14 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 enters | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 reappear | mark |
| 16 | reappear | reappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 intending | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 vampire | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 vampire | det |
| 19 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reappear | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | present | the fiend | the corpse | here | Fiend's skin obl | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme corpse=Destination | ||
| 2 | intend | gerund | the fiend not said here | probably property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | reappear not said to happen | to-infinitive | the fiend not said here | as a vampire | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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