Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 112

And as he was going his way, at a time when the sun had long set, and all was dark around, it chanced that he had to pass by a graveyard.

Who acts: soldier, all, sun · What happens: go, set, be, chance, have, pass · To what, where: way, sun

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 (soldier, all, sun), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 going	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 chanced	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 time	punct
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl:unmarked
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 set	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 set	aux
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 set	advmod
17	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 time	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dark	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dark	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 dark	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dark	cop
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 set	conj
23	around	around	ADV	_	22 dark	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 chanced	nsubj
26	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 chanced	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 pass	mark
31	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 graveyard	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 graveyard	det
34	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pass	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	soldier	soldier's way	time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set	past · perfect · passive		the sun		long property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
3	is	past	all			around, dark property	tree rules
4	chance	past	sun				vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have	past	soldier				tree rules
6	pass	to-infinitive	soldier not said here			by a graveyard	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by graveyard=Location

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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