Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 59

Of the proceedings of such a being the next story gives a detailed account, from which, among other things, may be learnt the fact that Slavonic corpses attach great importance to their coffin-lids as well as to their shrouds.

Who acts: Slavonic corpses · What happens: be, give, learn, attach · To what, where: detailed account, other things, great importance

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 (Slavonic corpses), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 proceedings	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 proceedings	det
3	proceedings	proceedings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 gives	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	10 story	case
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 story	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 story	det
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 story	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proceedings	nmod
11	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 account	det
13	detailed	detailed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 account	amod
14	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 learnt	punct
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 learnt	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 things	punct
19	among	among	ADP	_	21 things	case
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 learnt	nsubj:pass
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 things	punct
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 learnt	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 learnt	aux:pass
25	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 gives	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fact	det
27	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 learnt	obj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 attach	mark
29	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 corpses	amod
30	corpses	corpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 attach	nsubj
31	attach	attach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 fact	acl
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 importance	amod
33	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 attach	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	38 lids	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 lids	nmod:poss
36	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lids	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 coffin	punct
38	lids	lid	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 attach	obl
39	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	44 shrouds	cc
40	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 as	fixed
41	as	as	ADP	_	39 as	fixed
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 shrouds	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 shrouds	nmod:poss
44	shrouds	shroud	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 attach	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund			of such next story	tree rules
2	give	present		a detailed account	of the proceedings	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme
3	learn	may · passive		other things		tree rules
4	attach	present	Slavonic corpses	great importance	to things's coffin lids	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent importance=Patient to lid=Co-Patient

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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