Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 152
Suddenly the grave yawned, the dead man arose, and said:
Who acts: grave · What happens: yawn, arise, say · To what, where: grave · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (grave), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 arose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grave | det |
| 3 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arose | nsubj |
| 4 | yawned | yawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grave | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 arose | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arose | nsubj |
| 9 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arose | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yawn | participle | the grave not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | arise | past | the grave | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the grave not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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