Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 105
When he is exhumed, he is found to have long nails of recent growth on his hands and feet, and blood is streaming from his eyes, ears, nose and mouth.
Who acts: murony, blood · What happens: exhume, find, have, stream · To what, where: murony, long nails, hands, eyes
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (murony, blood), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 exhumed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 exhumed | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 exhumed | aux:pass |
| 4 | exhumed | exhume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 exhumed | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux:pass |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 exhumed | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 found | xcomp |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nails | amod |
| 12 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 growth | case |
| 14 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 growth | amod |
| 15 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nails | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 feet | cc |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hands | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 streaming | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 streaming | cc |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 streaming | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 streaming | aux |
| 25 | streaming | stream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 exhumed | advcl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 streaming | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ears | punct |
| 30 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 eyes | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 nose | punct |
| 32 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 eyes | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 mouth | cc |
| 34 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 nose | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 exhumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhume | present · passive | murony | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | find | present · passive | murony | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | murony not said here | long nails of recent growth | murony's hands and feet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient | |||
| 4 | stream | present · progressive | blood | murony's eyes and ears and nose and mouth | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from eye=Source |
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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