Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 2

They seem, from the language of their funeral songs, sometimes to regard the departed spirit as residing in the coffin which holds the body from which it has been severed, sometimes to imagine that it hovers around the building which used to be its home, or flies abroad on the wings of the winds.

Who acts: peasants, coffin, spirit, building · What happens: seem, regard, depart, reside, hold, sever · To what, where: language, departed spirit, flies, coffin, body, spirit

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants, coffin, spirit, building), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seem	nsubj
2	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 language	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 language	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 language	det
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seem	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 songs	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 songs	nmod:poss
9	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 songs	compound
10	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 language	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 regard	punct
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 regard	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 regard	mark
14	regard	regard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 songs	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spirit	det
16	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 spirit	amod
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 regard	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 residing	mark
19	residing	reside	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 regard	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 coffin	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 coffin	det
22	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 residing	obl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 holds	nsubj
24	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 coffin	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 body	det
26	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 holds	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 severed	obl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 severed	nsubj:pass
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 severed	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 severed	aux:pass
32	severed	sever	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 body	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 imagine	punct
34	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 imagine	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 imagine	mark
36	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 severed	conj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 hovers	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 hovers	nsubj
39	hovers	hover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 imagine	ccomp
40	around	around	ADP	_	42 building	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 building	det
42	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hovers	obl
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 used	nsubj
44	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 building	acl:relcl
45	to	to	PART	_	48 home	mark
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 home	cop
47	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 home	nmod:poss
48	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 used	xcomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 flies	punct
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 flies	cc
51	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 residing	obl
52	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	51 flies	advmod
53	on	on	ADP	_	55 wings	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 wings	det
55	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 flies	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 winds	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 winds	det
58	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 wings	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	present	peasants = peasant		the language of peasants's funeral songs		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	regard	to-infinitive	peasants = peasant not said here	the departed spirit		sometimes property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme
3	depart	participle					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reside	gerund	peasants = peasant not said here	flies on the wings of the winds	the coffin		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in coffin=Location
5	hold	present	the coffin	the body			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
6	sever	present · perfect · passive		spirit	the body		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from which=Initial_Location
7	imagine	to-infinitive				sometimes property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	hover	present	spirit		the building		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around building=Location
9	use	past	the building				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is a	to-infinitive	the building not said here	spirit's home			tree rules
11	sing		peasants = peasant				nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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