Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 71

After a short delay the dead man came back, and was going to snatch up his coffin-lid--but it was not to be seen.

Who acts: dead man · What happens: come back, go, snatch up, not see · To what, where: coffin lid, delay

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 (dead man), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 delay	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 delay	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 delay	amod
4	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 going	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 snatch	mark
15	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 going	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 snatch	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lid	nmod:poss
18	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lid	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 coffin	punct
20	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snatch	obj
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 seen	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 seen	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seen	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux:pass
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 seen	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	28 seen	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 seen	aux:pass
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 came	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come back	past	the dead man		after a short delay	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	the dead man not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	snatch up	to-infinitive	the dead man not said here	man's coffin lid		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
4	not see	past · passive		delay		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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