Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 42

Her dead mother "comes out from her grave," and tells her what to do.

Who acts: dead mother · What happens: come out, tell, do · To what, where: grave, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dead mother), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 comes	compound:prt
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 grave	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grave	nmod:poss
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grave	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 grave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tells	cc
13	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 comes	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tells	iobj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tells	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	come out in a quote	present	carrier's dead mother		mother's grave	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	present	carrier's dead mother not said here	mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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