Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 104

They found out the grave from which the dead man had come out, they tore it open, and they drove an aspen stake right into the heart of the corpse, so that it might no more rise up and slay.

Who acts: eyes, dead man, aspen · What happens: find out, come out, tore, drive, stake, not rise up · To what, where: grave, news, heart

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, dead man, aspen), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 found	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grave	det
5	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 come	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 grave	acl:relcl
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tore	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tore	nsubj
16	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tore	obj
18	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tore	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drove	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drove	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 drove	nsubj
22	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 aspen	det
24	aspen	aspen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stake	nsubj
25	stake	stake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 drove	ccomp
26	right	right	ADV	_	29 heart	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 heart	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heart	det
29	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stake	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 corpse	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 corpse	det
32	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heart	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 rise	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	_	40 rise	advmod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 rise	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 rise	aux
38	no	no	ADV	_	40 rise	advmod
39	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 rise	nsubj
40	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 stake	parataxis
41	up	up	ADP	_	40 rise	compound:prt
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 slay	cc
43	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 rise	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find out	past	eyes = eye	the grave			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Topic
2	come out	past · perfect	the dead man		the grave	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	tore	past	eyes = eye	news		open property	tree rules
4	drive	past	eyes = eye				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
5	stake	infinitive	a aspen	the heart of the corpse			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
6	not rise up	might	aspen				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	slay	infinitive	aspen not said here				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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