Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 154

"Here's the place," they cried, "where he was last night!"

Who acts: place, devils, SOLDIER · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: last night · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (place, devils, SOLDIER), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 night	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 where	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 night	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 night	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 night	cop
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 night	amod
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the place		here property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	devils = devil			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	past	SOLDIER	last night		tree rules

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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