Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 107
Thus, one night, a peasant is conducted by a stranger into a house where lie two sleepers, an old man and a youth. "
Who acts: stranger · What happens: conduct, lie · To what, where: peasant, house, two sleepers
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 (stranger), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 conducted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 night | nummod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 conducted | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 peasant | det |
| 7 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 conducted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 conducted | aux:pass |
| 9 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 stranger | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stranger | det |
| 12 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 conducted | obl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 conducted | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 lie | advmod |
| 17 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 house | acl:relcl |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 sleepers | nummod |
| 19 | sleepers | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lie | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sleepers | appos |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 youth | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 youth | det |
| 26 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 conducted | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | present · passive | a stranger | a peasant | a house | night | thus property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into house=Destination | |
| 2 | lie | present | two sleepers | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sleeper=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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