Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 129
Then both the corpses fell lifeless to the ground, and the Soldier went on his way homeward in peace, saying:
Who acts: corpses, Soldier · What happens: fall, go, say · To what, where: way homeward · 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 (corpses, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 fell | advmod |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 corpses | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 corpses | det |
| 4 | corpses | corpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifeless | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Soldier | det |
| 13 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 homeward | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 homeward | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 homeward | compound |
| 18 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 peace | case |
| 20 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 homeward | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saying | punct |
| 22 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fell | advcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | both corpses | then | lifeless property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | the Soldier | soldier's way homeward in peace | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on homeward=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | both corpses not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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