Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 182
On one of the graves he saw a great fire blazing. "
Who acts: property, great fire · What happens: see, blaze · To what, where: great fire
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 (property, great fire), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 saw | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 graves | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 graves | det |
| 5 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fire | amod |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 fire | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | property | a great fire | on one of the graves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | blaze | gerund | a great fire not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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