Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 16

But the picture had to be taken back again, and it was now the midnight hour.

Who acts: picture · What happens: have, take back, be · To what, where: midnight hour

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 (picture), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 picture	det
3	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 taken	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 taken	aux:pass
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	xcomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 taken	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 taken	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hour	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hour	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hour	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hour	cop
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 hour	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hour	det
16	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hour	compound
17	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	the picture			tree rules
2	take back	to-infinitive · passive	the picture not said here		again	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»
3	is a	past	picture	the midnight hour	now	tree rules

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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