Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 43
"Really now, how could one go to a graveyard with a corpse?
Who acts: one · What happens: go · To what, where: graveyard
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 (one), 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 | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 2 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 3 now | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 go | advmod |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 7 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 graveyard | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 graveyard | det |
| 11 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 corpse | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 corpse | det |
| 14 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | could | one | a graveyard | now | with a corpse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to graveyard=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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