Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 68
The grave opened, and out of it came a corpse--wrapped in a white shroud, and holding a coffin lid--came out and ran to the church, laid the coffin-lid at the door, and then set off for the village.
Who acts: grave · What happens: open, come, wrap, hold, come out, run · To what, where: corpse, movement, white shroud, coffin lid, door
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 (grave), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grave | det |
| 2 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | obl |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 corpse | det |
| 11 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 wrapped | punct |
| 13 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 corpse | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 shroud | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shroud | det |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shroud | amod |
| 17 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wrapped | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 20 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 came | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lid | det |
| 22 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lid | compound |
| 23 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 holding | obj |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 holding | punct |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ran | cc |
| 28 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 came | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 church | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 church | det |
| 31 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ran | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 laid | punct |
| 33 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 came | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 lid | det |
| 35 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lid | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 coffin | punct |
| 37 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 laid | obj |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 door | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 door | det |
| 40 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 laid | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 set | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 set | cc |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 set | advmod |
| 44 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 came | advcl |
| 45 | off | off | ADP | _ | 44 set | compound:prt |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 village | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 village | det |
| 48 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 set | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | participle | the grave | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | a corpse | movement | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location corpse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wrap | participle | a corpse not said here | a white shroud | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in shroud=Destination | ||||
| 4 | hold | gerund | a coffin lid | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come out | past | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | run | past | to the church result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to church=Result | |||||
| 7 | lay | past | the coffin lid | the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lid=Theme at door=Destination | ||||
| 8 | set off | infinitive | then | for the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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