Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 152

There it was fighting with the corpse--and you deserted it, and thought only of saving yourself!

Who acts: work, you · What happens: fight, desert, think, save · To what, where: work, yourself · 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 (work, you), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 fighting	expl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fighting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fighting	aux
4	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 corpse	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 corpse	det
7	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fighting	obl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 deserted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 deserted	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 deserted	nsubj
11	deserted	desert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fighting	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 deserted	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 deserted	conj
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 saving	advmod
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 saving	mark
18	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 thought	ccomp
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 saving	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 fighting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fight	past · progressive	work		there	with the corpse	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with corpse=Co-Agent
2	desert	past	you	work			vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme it=Source
3	think speech: other	past	you not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	save	gerund		yourself			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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