Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 156

"I'd have gone, only the marriage procession is stopping outside; all the folks are waiting for me."

Who acts: grave, marriage procession, folks · What happens: go, stop, wait

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, marriage procession, folks), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopping	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 procession	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 procession	det
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 procession	compound
10	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stopping	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stopping	aux
12	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gone	conj
13	outside	outside	ADV	_	12 stopping	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 waiting	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 folks	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 folks	det
17	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 waiting	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 waiting	aux
19	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gone	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 waiting	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 waiting	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	would · perfect	the grave = grave		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop in a quote	present · progressive	the marriage procession	outside property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	wait in a quote	present · progressive	all folks	for the grave = grave	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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