Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 108

Past such dangerous spots as these the belated villager will speed with timorous steps, remembering, perhaps, some such uncanny tale as that which comes next.

Who acts: belated villager, some, such uncanny tale · What happens: belat, speed, remember, tale, come · To what, where: such dangerous spots

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 (belated villager, some, such uncanny tale), 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	Past	past	ADP	_	4 spots	case
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spots	amod
3	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spots	amod
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 speed	obl
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 these	case
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 spots	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 villager	det
8	belated	belat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 villager	amod
9	villager	villager	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speed	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 speed	aux
11	speed	speed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 steps	case
13	timorous	timorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 steps	amod
14	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 speed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 remembering	punct
16	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 speed	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tale	punct
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	23 tale	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tale	punct
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 tale	nsubj
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tale	amod
22	uncanny	uncanny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tale	amod
23	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remembering	obj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 that	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 tale	nmod
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 comes	nsubj
27	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 tale	acl:relcl
28	next	next	ADV	_	27 comes	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 speed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	belat	participle				tree rules
2	speed	future	the belated villager	such dangerous spots as these	with timorous steps	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past spot=Trajectory
3	remember	gerund	the belated villager not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	tale		some		as that; perhaps property	tree rules
5	come	present	such uncanny tale		next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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