Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 28

He and the Warlock talked and talked, and at last they arrived at the grave.

Who acts: Soldier, crows · What happens: talk, arrive · To what, where: last

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 (Soldier, crows), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talked	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 talked	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Warlock	det
4	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 talked	nsubj
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 talked	cc
7	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talked	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 arrived	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 arrived	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 arrived	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 arrived	nsubj
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talked	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 grave	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 grave	det
16	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Soldier			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	past	Soldier not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	arrive	past	crows = crow	last	at the grave	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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