Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 86

The incident of the midnight watch by a father's grave, kept by a son to whom the dead man appears and gives a magic horse, often occurs in the Skazkas.

Who acts: incident, dead man · What happens: watch, keep, appear, give, occur · To what, where: grave, magic horse, Skazkas

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incident, dead man), 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	2 incident	det
2	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watch	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 midnight	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 midnight	det
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 incident	nmod
6	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	11 grave	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 father	det
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grave	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watch	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 grave	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 son	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 son	det
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 whom	case
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 son	nmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 appears	nsubj
22	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 whom	acl:relcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gives	cc
24	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 appears	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 horse	det
26	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 horse	compound
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gives	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 occurs	punct
29	often	often	ADV	_	30 occurs	advmod
30	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 gives	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 Skazkas	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Skazkas	det
33	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 occurs	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 watch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	infinitive	the incident of the midnight			by a father's grave	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grave=Location
2	keep	participle		a father's grave not said here		by a son	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by son=Location
3	appear	present	the dead man				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	present	the dead man not said here	a magic horse			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
5	occur	present	the dead man not said here		the Skazkas	often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in skazkas=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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