Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 175

A terrible warlock has died among us, and by night he rises from his grave, wanders through the village, and does such things as bring fear upon the very boldest!

Who acts: terrible warlock, warlock · What happens: die, rise, wander, do · To what, where: grave, village, such things

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 (terrible warlock, warlock), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 warlock	det
2	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warlock	amod
3	warlock	warlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 died	aux
5	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 died	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rises	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rises	cc
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rises	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rises	nsubj
13	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 died	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 grave	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 grave	nmod:poss
16	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rises	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wanders	punct
18	wanders	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rises	conj
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 village	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 village	det
21	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wanders	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 does	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 does	cc
24	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rises	advcl
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 things	amod
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 does	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 fear	case
28	bring	bring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fear	amod
29	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 does	obl
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 boldest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 boldest	det
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 boldest	advmod
33	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 does	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present · perfect	a terrible warlock				among us	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	rise	present	warlock		warlock's grave	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from grave=Initial_Location
3	wander	present	warlock not said here		the village			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through village=Trajectory
4	do	present	warlock not said here	such things			as bring fear; upon the boldest	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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