Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 37

In one story he appears to have stolen, or in some way concealed, the day-light; in another the bright moon and the many stars come forth from within him after his death.

Who acts: outline, bright moon · What happens: appear, steal, conceal, come, die · To what, where: one story, day light, way

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (outline, bright moon), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 story	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 story	nummod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appears	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 appears	nsubj
5	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 stolen	mark
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 stolen	aux
8	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 appears	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 concealed	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 concealed	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 concealed	obl
14	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 appears	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 light	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 light	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 light	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 day	punct
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 concealed	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 moon	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 moon	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 moon	det
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moon	det
24	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 moon	amod
25	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stars	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stars	det
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stars	amod
29	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 moon	conj
30	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 appears	parataxis
31	forth	forth	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 him	case
33	within	within	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 come	obl
35	after	after	ADP	_	37 death	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 death	nmod:poss
37	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	outline		one story			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	steal	to-infinitive · perfect	outline not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	conceal	participle	outline not said here	the day light	some way			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location
4	come	present	another bright moon and the many stars			after outline's death	from outline; forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location
5	die		outline					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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