Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 107

The "Dead Mother," which has already been quoted,[400] belongs to the latter class; and so does the following tale--which, as it bears no title in the original, we may name,

Who acts: Dead Mother, we · What happens: quote, belong, do, follow, name · To what, where: Dead Mother, following tale

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dead Mother, we), 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	4 Mother	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Mother	punct
3	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Mother	amod
4	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 belongs	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 quoted	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 quoted	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 quoted	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 quoted	aux
9	already	already	ADV	_	11 quoted	advmod
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 quoted	aux:pass
11	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Mother	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 400	punct
13	[	[	PUNCT	_	14 400	punct
14	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 quoted	obl
15	]	]	PUNCT	_	14 400	punct
16	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 class	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 class	det
19	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 class	amod
20	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 belongs	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 does	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 does	cc
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 does	advmod
24	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 name	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tale	det
26	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 tale	amod
27	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 does	obj
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 bears	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 bears	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bears	punct
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 bears	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bears	nsubj
33	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tale	appos
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 title	det
35	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bears	appos
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 original	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 original	det
38	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 title	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 does	punct
40	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 name	nsubj
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 name	aux
42	name	name	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 belongs	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 belongs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	quote speech: other	present · perfect · passive		the Dead Mother	400 obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	belong	present	the Dead Mother		to the latter class	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	do	present	we not said here	the following tale		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality
4	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	name	may	we			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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