Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 78
"Well, I've been in the village, and there I've killed a couple of youngsters."
Who acts: corpse, village · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: village, corpse
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, village), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 village | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 village | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 village | nsubj |
| 5 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 village | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 village | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 killed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 killed | cc |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 killed | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 killed | aux |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 village | acl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 couple | det |
| 17 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 youngsters | case |
| 19 | youngsters | youngster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 couple | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 village | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 village | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | the corpse = corpse | the village | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the village not said here | the corpse = corpse | there | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer couple=Result |
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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