Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 118

The Soldier hid himself in a corner, and remained there, hardly knowing whether he was alive or dead, but waiting to see what would happen.

Who acts: Soldier · What happens: hide, remain, know, be, wait, see · To what, where: soldier, corner · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Soldier	det
2	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 hid	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 corner	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 corner	det
7	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 remained	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 remained	cc
10	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hid	conj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 remained	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knowing	punct
13	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	14 knowing	advmod
14	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 remained	advcl
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 alive	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 alive	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 alive	cop
18	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 knowing	ccomp
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 dead	cc
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 alive	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waiting	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 waiting	cc
23	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 knowing	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 waiting	advcl
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 happen	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 happen	aux
28	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the Soldier	soldier	a corner		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location
2	remain	past	the Soldier not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	gerund	the Soldier not said here			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	soldier			alive property	tree rules
5	be		soldier not said here				tree rules
6	wait	gerund	the Soldier not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	to-infinitive	the Soldier not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/53/118/