Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 182
In the latter the bridegroom knocks hard and long on his dead friend's grave.
Who acts: latter bridegroom · What happens: knock · To what, where: grave
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 (latter 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 bridegroom | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 latter | det |
| 3 | latter | latte | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 bridegroom | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bridegroom | det |
| 5 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knocks | nsubj |
| 6 | knocks | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knocks | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 long | cc |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hard | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 grave | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friend | amod |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grave | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 friend | case |
| 15 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knocks | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knocks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | present | the latter bridegroom | bridegroom's dead friend's grave | hard property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grave=Location |
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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