Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 23
As she was passing the graveyard on her return, she saw a corpse in a white shroud, seated on a tomb.
Who acts: girl · What happens: pass, see, seat, return · To what, where: graveyard, return, corpse, white shroud, tomb
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 (girl), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 passing | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passing | aux |
| 4 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 saw | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 graveyard | det |
| 6 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passing | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 return | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 return | nmod:poss |
| 9 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passing | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 corpse | det |
| 14 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 shroud | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shroud | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shroud | amod |
| 18 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seated | punct |
| 20 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 shroud | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 tomb | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tomb | det |
| 23 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seated | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · progressive | girl | the graveyard | girl's return | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent graveyard=Theme on return=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | past | girl | a corpse | a white shroud | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer corpse=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | seat | participle | a white shroud not said here | a tomb | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | return | girl | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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