Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 184
Then he follows the bridegroom to church and from church, and afterwards the bridegroom sees him back to his tomb.
Who acts: occupant, bridegroom · What happens: follow, see · To what, where: bridegroom, church, occupant
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 follows | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 follows | nsubj |
| 3 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bridegroom | det |
| 5 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follows | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bridegroom | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 church | cc |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 church | case |
| 10 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 church | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sees | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sees | cc |
| 13 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 15 bridegroom | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bridegroom | det |
| 15 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sees | nsubj |
| 16 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 follows | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sees | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 sees | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 tomb | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 back | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | occupant | the bridegroom | church and church | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme to church=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | see | present | the bridegroom | occupant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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