Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 173

He went to the priest's--but the priest was not the one who used to be there--and told him about everything that had happened.

Who acts: road, priest, one · What happens: go, not be, use, be, tell, happen · To what, where: priest, one, road · 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 (road, priest, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 priest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 priest	det
5	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	's	's	PART	_	5 priest	case
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 one	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 priest	det
10	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 one	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 one	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 one	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 one	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	19 there	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 there	cop
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 used	advcl
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 everything	case
25	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 told	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 happened	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 happened	aux
28	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 everything	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	road			the priest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to priest=Initial_Location
2	not is a	past	the priest	the one				tree rules
3	use	past	the one					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	to-infinitive	the one not said here				there property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	road not said here		road		about everything	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about everything=Topic
6	happen	past · perfect						vn occur-48.3-1 «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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