Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 115
He looked back and there was a corpse running and gnashing its teeth.
Who acts: soldier, corpse · What happens: look back, be, run, gnash · To what, where: teeth
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, corpse), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 was | cc |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 corpse | det |
| 8 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 corpse | acl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gnashing | cc |
| 11 | gnashing | gnash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 running | conj |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gnashing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | past | soldier | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | a corpse | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | a corpse not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | gnash | gerund | a corpse not said here | sun's teeth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
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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