Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 64

It is called "The Girl and the Dead Man," and relates, among other strange things, how a youngest sister took service in a house where a corpse lay. "

Who acts: youngest sister · What happens: call, relate, take · To what, where: scene, service, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest sister), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	aux:pass
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Girl	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Girl	det
6	Girl	Girl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Man	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Man	det
9	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Man	amod
10	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Girl	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Man	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Girl	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 relates	cc
14	relates	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 things	punct
16	among	among	ADP	_	19 things	case
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
18	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 took	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sister	det
23	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 sister	amod
24	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 things	parataxis
26	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 house	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obl
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 lay	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 lay	det
32	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lay	compound
33	lay	lay	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 house	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	call	present · passive		scene		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	relate	present				vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	a youngest sister	service	a house a corpse lay	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent service=Value in house=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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