Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 111

There met him on the way an old friend, one who had been dead some ten years.

Who acts: one · What happens: meet, be · To what, where: artisan, way

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 (one), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 met	expl
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 met	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 met	obl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 friend	amod
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dead	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 dead	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 dead	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 dead	cop
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 met	parataxis
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 years	det
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dead	obl:unmarked
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past		artisan		the way; there			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	is	past · perfect	one				year	dead property	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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