Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 138

At an uncanny hour he passed by a graveyard, and there, at a place where two roads met, he saw standing a corpse in a white shroud.

Who acts: moujik, two roads · What happens: pass, meet, see, stand · To what, where: place, corpse, white shroud

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 (moujik, two roads), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 hour	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
3	uncanny	uncanny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hour	amod
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 passed	nsubj
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 graveyard	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 graveyard	det
9	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 there	cc
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 passed	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 place	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 place	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 place	det
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 met	advmod
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 roads	nummod
19	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 met	nsubj
20	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 place	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
24	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 saw	xcomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 corpse	det
26	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 standing	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 shroud	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shroud	det
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shroud	amod
30	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 standing	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	moujik		a place	hour	by a graveyard	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by graveyard=Location
2	meet	past	two roads					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	moujik					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	stand	gerund	moujik not said here	a corpse	a white shroud			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme in shroud=Destination

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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