Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 24

At the gate people are always riding about, the horses crush our heads with their hoofs, and in the corn-kiln we get beaten with flails."

Who acts: people, horses · What happens: ride, crush, beat · To what, where: gate, heads, we, corn kiln

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 (people, horses), 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	_	3 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 riding	obl
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 riding	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 riding	aux
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 riding	advmod
7	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 riding	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crush	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horses	det
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 crush	nsubj
12	crush	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 riding	conj
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heads	nmod:poss
14	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 crush	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 hoofs	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hoofs	nmod:poss
17	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 crush	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 beaten	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 beaten	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 kiln	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 kiln	det
22	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kiln	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 corn	punct
24	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beaten	obl
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 beaten	nsubj
26	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 beaten	aux:pass
27	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 riding	parataxis
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 flails	case
29	flails	flail	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 beaten	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 riding	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 riding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	present · progressive	people		the gate	about, always property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	crush	present	the horses	our heads		with horses's hoofs	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with hoof=Instrument
3	beat	present · passive		we	the corn kiln	with flails	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with flail=Instrument

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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