Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 86

But just as the dead man was descending into it, all of a sudden the cocks began to crow, and he hadn't time to get properly covered over.

Who acts: dead man, all, man · What happens: descend, begin, crow, have, get, cover over · To what, where: SHROUD

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, all, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 descending	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	8 descending	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 descending	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 descending	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 descending	aux
8	descending	descend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 began	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 descending	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 descending	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 began	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 cocks	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cocks	det
15	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cocks	amod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cocks	det
17	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 all	nmod
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 crow	mark
20	crow	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 began	conj
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 time	advmod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 time	acl
29	properly	properly	ADV	_	30 covered	advmod
30	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 get	xcomp
31	over	over	ADV	_	30 covered	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	past · progressive	the dead man	SHROUD			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Location
2	begin	past	all				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	crow	to-infinitive	all not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	man		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	get	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	cover over	participle	man not said here			over, properly property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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