Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 63

His horse grew tired, and all of a sudden it came to a standstill alongside of a graveyard.

Who acts: horse, all · What happens: grow, come · To what, where: standstill alongside

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 (horse, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 came	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sudden	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sudden	det
10	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 all	nmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 all	nmod
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 alongside	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 alongside	det
15	standstill	standstill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 alongside	compound
16	alongside	alongside	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 graveyard	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 graveyard	det
19	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 alongside	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	moujik's horse					tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	all			a standstill alongside of a graveyard			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to alongside=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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