Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 141

When the corpse perceived him, it came to meet him; not touching the earth with its feet, but keeping about a foot above it--the shroud fluttering after it.

Who acts: corpse, way, shroud · What happens: perceive, come, meet, not touch, keep, flutter · To what, where: moujik, earth, way

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 (corpse, way, shroud), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 perceived	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corpse	det
3	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 perceived	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 meet	mark
10	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 came	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 meet	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 touching	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 touching	advmod
14	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 earth	det
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 touching	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 feet	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 earth	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 keeping	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 keeping	cc
22	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 touching	conj
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 foot	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 foot	det
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keeping	obl
26	above	above	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 keeping	obl
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 shroud	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shroud	det
30	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keeping	parataxis
31	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 shroud	acl
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fluttering	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the corpse	moujik				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	come	past	way					tree rules
3	meet	to-infinitive	way not said here	moujik				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	not touch	gerund	way not said here	the earth			with way's feet	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent earth=Experiencer with foot=Instrument
5	keep	gerund	way not said here		way		about a foot	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about foot=Location
6	flutter	gerund	the shroud not said here			after way		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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.

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