Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 30

But after they had supped and lain down to sleep, all of a sudden the corpse tapped at the window and said:

Who acts: others, all · What happens: sup, lie down, sleep, tap, say · 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 (others, all), 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	_	18 tapped	cc
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 supped	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 supped	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 supped	aux
5	supped	sup	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 all	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lain	cc
7	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 supped	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 lain	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lain	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 supped	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 tapped	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 corpse	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 corpse	det
15	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 corpse	amod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 corpse	det
17	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 all	nmod
18	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 window	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 window	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tapped	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tapped	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 tapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sup	past · perfect	others = other		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie down	participle	others = other not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	to-infinitive	others = other not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tap	past	all	at the window	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at window=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	all not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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