Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 72

Then the corpse began to track it out, traced it up to the moujik, and said:

Who acts: corpse · What happens: begin, track out, trace up, say · To what, where: delay · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (corpse), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corpse	det
3	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 track	mark
6	track	track	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 track	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 track	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 traced	punct
10	traced	trace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 traced	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 traced	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 moujik	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moujik	det
15	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 traced	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the corpse		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	track out	to-infinitive	the corpse not said here	delay			vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	trace up	past	the corpse not said here	delay		to the moujik	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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