Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 117

There wasn't a soul in the chapel, but stretched out on a table there lay another corpse, with tapers burning in front of it.

Who acts: soul, tapers · What happens: not be, stretch out, lie, burn · To what, where: table, corpse, front

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 (soul, tapers), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 soul	det
5	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 chapel	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chapel	det
8	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soul	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stretched	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 stretched	cc
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	parataxis
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 stretched	compound:prt
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 table	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 table	det
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	obl
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 lay	advmod
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stretched	parataxis
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 corpse	det
19	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 burning	punct
21	with	with	SCONJ	_	23 burning	mark
22	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 burning	nsubj
23	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lay	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 front	case
25	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 burning	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 front	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not be	past	a soul in the chapel		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stretch out	participle			a table	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	lie	past		another corpse	there	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location corpse=Theme
4	burn	gerund	tapers		front of chapel	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=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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