Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 39

Next night, when the spinners had all gone home to their own houses, at the very same hour as before, the corpse came, tapped at the window, and cried:

Who acts: spinners, corpse · What happens: have, come, tap, cry · To what, where: gone home

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 (spinners, corpse), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 had	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spinners	det
6	spinners	spinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 night	conj
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 gone	advmod
9	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 home	amod
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 houses	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 houses	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 houses	amod
14	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hour	punct
16	at	at	ADP	_	20 hour	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hour	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 same	advmod
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hour	amod
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 houses	appos
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 before	case
22	before	before	ADV	_	20 hour	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 corpse	det
25	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tapped	punct
28	tapped	tap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 came	parataxis
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 window	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 window	det
31	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tapped	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cried	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cried	cc
34	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 came	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the spinners	gone home		to spinners's own houses	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient
2	come	past	the corpse		night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tap	participle				at the window	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at window=Patient
4	cry speech: express	past	the corpse not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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