Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 122

The leaping of a cat or some other animal across a corpse, even the flight of a bird above it, may turn the innocent defunct into a ravenous demon.

Who acts: leaping · What happens: turn · To what, where: innocent defunct

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 (leaping), 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 leaping	det
2	leaping	leaping	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turn	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaping	nmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 animal	cc
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 animal	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animal	amod
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cat	conj
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 corpse	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 corpse	det
12	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 animal	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flight	punct
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 flight	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flight	det
16	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 corpse	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 bird	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flight	nmod
20	above	above	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bird	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 leaping	punct
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 turn	aux
24	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 defunct	det
26	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 defunct	amod
27	defunct	defunct	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turn	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 demon	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 demon	det
30	ravenous	ravenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 demon	amod
31	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turn	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	may	the leaping of a cat or some other animal across a corpse	the innocent defunct				into a ravenous demon result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent defunct=Theme into demon=Result

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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