Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 95
The moujik did everything as the corpse had instructed him, and the lads came back to life.
Who acts: moujik, lads · What happens: do, instruct, come back · To what, where: everything, corpse, life
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 (moujik, lads), 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 moujik | det |
| 2 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 instructed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 corpse | det |
| 7 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 instructed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 instructed | aux |
| 9 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 instructed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lads | det |
| 14 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the moujik | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the corpse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come back | past | the lads | life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location |
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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