Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 107

At cross-roads, or in the neighborhood of cemeteries, an animated corpse of this description often lurks, watching for some unwary wayfarer whom it may be able to slay and eat.

Who acts: animated corpse, unwary wayfarer · What happens: lurk, watch, be, slay, eat · To what, where: cross-roads

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 (animated corpse, unwary wayfarer), 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 cross-roads	case
2	cross-roads	cross-road	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lurks	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 neighborhood	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 neighborhood	cc
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 neighborhood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 neighborhood	det
7	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cross-roads	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cemeteries	case
9	cemeteries	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 neighborhood	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cross-roads	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 corpse	det
12	animated	animated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 corpse	amod
13	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lurks	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 description	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 description	det
16	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 corpse	nmod
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 lurks	advmod
18	lurks	lurk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 watching	punct
20	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 lurks	advcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 wayfarer	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 wayfarer	det
23	unwary	unwary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wayfarer	amod
24	wayfarer	wayfarer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 watching	obl
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 able	nsubj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 able	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 able	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	cop
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wayfarer	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 slay	mark
31	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 eat	cc
33	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 slay	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 lurks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lurk	present	a animated corpse of this description	cross-roads in the neighborhood of cemeteries	often property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cross-road=Location
2	watch	gerund	a animated corpse of this description not said here		for some unwary wayfarer	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for wayfarer=Theme
3	is	may	some unwary wayfarer		able property	tree rules
4	slay	to-infinitive	some unwary wayfarer not said here			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	eat	infinitive	some unwary wayfarer not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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