Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 29

The old woman runs out to greet her daughter, and "instead of her embraces a cold corpse."

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: run out, greet, embrace · To what, where: daughter

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 runs	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 greet	mark
7	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 runs	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nmod:poss
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 greet	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 corpse	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 corpse	cc
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 instead	punct
13	instead	instead	ADV	_	19 corpse	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 embraces	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 embraces	nmod:poss
16	embraces	embrace	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 instead	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 corpse	det
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 corpse	amod
19	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 runs	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 runs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	run out	present	the old woman		tree rules
2	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	woman's daughter	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
3	embrace in a quote		woman		nom embrace «act transitive»: 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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