Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 103
Well, they spread the news through the village; the whole population assembled and swarmed into the graveyard.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: spread, assemble, swarm · To what, where: news, village, whole population, graveyard
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 spread | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 news | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 population | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 population | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 population | amod |
| 13 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 14 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 population | acl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swarmed | cc |
| 16 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 assembled | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 graveyard | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 graveyard | det |
| 19 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swarmed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | eyes = eye | the news | the village | the whole population obl | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme through village=Destination | ||
| 2 | assemble | participle | the whole population not said here | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | swarm | participle | the graveyard | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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