Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 108
The stranger takes a pail, places it near the youth, and strikes him on the back; immediately the back opens, and forth flows rosy blood.
Who acts: stranger, back · What happens: take, strike, open, flow · To what, where: pail, stranger, rosy blood
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, back), 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 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pail | det |
| 5 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 places | punct |
| 7 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 takes | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 places | obj |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 youth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 places | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 strikes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 strikes | cc |
| 14 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 takes | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 strikes | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 back | det |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 strikes | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 opens | punct |
| 20 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 23 opens | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 back | det |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 opens | nsubj |
| 23 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 takes | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 flows | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 flows | cc |
| 26 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 27 flows | advmod |
| 27 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 opens | conj |
| 28 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 blood | amod |
| 29 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flows | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | the stranger | a pail | places near the youth obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Theme | |||
| 2 | strike | present | the stranger not said here | stranger | on the back | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on back=Patient | |||
| 3 | open | present | the back | immediately property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | flow | present | the back not said here | rosy blood | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=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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