Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 183

At length its occupant appears, and accounts for his delay by saying he had been far away when the first knocks came, and so had not heard them.

Who acts: occupant, delay, first knocks · What happens: appear, say, be, come, not hear · To what, where: accounts, length, knocks · 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 (occupant, delay, first knocks), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appears	obl
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 occupant	nmod:poss
4	occupant	occupant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appears	nsubj
5	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 accounts	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 accounts	cc
8	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 appears	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 delay	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 delay	nmod:poss
11	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accounts	nmod
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 saying	mark
13	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 delay	acl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 away	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 away	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 away	cop
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 away	advmod
18	away	away	ADV	_	13 saying	ccomp
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 knocks	det
21	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 knocks	amod
22	knocks	knock	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 away	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 heard	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 heard	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 heard	advmod
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 heard	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 heard	advmod
29	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 appears	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 heard	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	present	length's occupant	accounts	length	for occupant's delay	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location account=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	occupant's delay not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past · perfect	occupant			away, far property	tree rules
4	come	past	the first knocks				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not hear	past · perfect	length's occupant not said here	knocks = knock			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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