Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 144
The dog kept up the struggle until cock-crow, when the corpse fell motionless to the ground.
Who acts: dog, corpse · What happens: keep up, fall · To what, where: struggle
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 (dog, corpse), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 kept | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 struggle | det |
| 6 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obj |
| 7 | until | until | ADP | _ | 10 crow | case |
| 8 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crow | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 cock | punct |
| 10 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 fell | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 corpse | det |
| 14 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 16 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fell | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 motionless | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep up | past | the dog | the struggle | until cock crow | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent struggle=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the corpse | motionless property | vn occur-48.3 «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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