Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 168

"And who may be the black rider, granny, who passed by me just at your gate?"

Who acts: black rider · What happens: be, pass · To what, where: black rider, gate

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black rider), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 rider	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 rider	cc
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 rider	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 rider	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 rider	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rider	det
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rider	amod
8	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 granny	punct
10	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rider	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 passed	nsubj
13	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rider	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 passed	obl
16	just	just	ADV	_	19 gate	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 gate	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 gate	nmod:poss
19	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 gate	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 gate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	may		the black rider and granny					tree rules
2	pass in a quote	past	the black rider and granny			your gate		by 191	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by i=Location

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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