Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 68

The catastrophe we may for the present pass over, but about the opening some few words may be said.

What happens: open, say · To what, where: few words · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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 catastrophe	det
2	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pass	nsubj
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 pass	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 pass	aux
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 pass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pass	det
7	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pass	amod
8	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	over	over	ADV	_	8 pass	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
12	about	about	SCONJ	_	14 opening	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 opening	det
14	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 said	advcl
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 words	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 words	amod
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 opening	obj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 said	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	aux:pass
20	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pass	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	gerund		some few words					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme
2	say speech: assert	may · passive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»

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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