Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 28

"There!" says she, "I've taken back the picture and put it in its place; and, what's more, here's a shroud I took away from a corpse."

Who acts: I, shroud · What happens: say, take back, put, be, take away · To what, where: girl, picture, place, shroud, corpse · 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 (I, shroud), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 says	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 taken	nsubj
10	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 says	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 taken	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 picture	det
14	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taken	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
16	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 place	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 place	nmod:poss
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 shroud	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 shroud	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 more	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 more	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 more	cop
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 shroud	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 here	punct
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 more	conj
29	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 shroud	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 shroud	det
31	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	ccomp
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 took	nsubj
33	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 shroud	acl:relcl
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 took	advmod
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 corpse	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 corpse	det
37	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 took	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	take back in a quote	present · perfect	I	the picture			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
3	put in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	picture	picture's place		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=Destination
4	is in a quote	present	a shroud			more property	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present		a shroud			tree rules
6	take away in a quote	past	I	a shroud not said here	a corpse	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent shroud=Theme from corpse=Initial_Location

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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