Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 85
The corpse went to its grave--the grave opened.
Who acts: corpse · What happens: go, open · To what, where: grave
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 corpse | det |
| 2 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 grave | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 grave | nmod:poss |
| 6 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 grave | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grave | det |
| 9 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grave | conj |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 grave | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the corpse | SHROUD's grave and the grave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | open | participle | the grave not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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