Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 174
The priest searched through the church-books, and found that, three hundred years before, this occurrence had taken place: a bridegroom had gone to the graveyard on his wedding-day, and had disappeared.
Who acts: priest, bridegroom · What happens: search, find, take, go, disappear · To what, where: priest, church books, occurrence, graveyard
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 (priest, bridegroom), 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 | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj |
| 3 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 priest | acl |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 books | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 books | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 books | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 church | punct |
| 8 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 searched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 years | mark |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 three | punct |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | obl |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 years | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 taken | punct |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 occurrence | det |
| 20 | occurrence | occurrence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 found | conj |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | obj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 gone | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bridegroom | det |
| 26 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gone | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gone | aux |
| 28 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 found | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 graveyard | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 graveyard | det |
| 31 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gone | obl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 day | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 day | nmod:poss |
| 34 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 day | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 wedding | punct |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gone | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 disappeared | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 disappeared | cc |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 disappeared | aux |
| 40 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 gone | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | participle | the priest not said here | the church books | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through book=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the priest | year | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect · passive | this occurrence | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | |||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | a bridegroom | the graveyard | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to graveyard=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | disappear | past · perfect | a bridegroom not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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