Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 61

Well, they took the wood into the graveyard, dragged the Warlock out of his grave, placed him on the pyre, and set it alight--the people all standing round in a circle with brooms, shovels, and fire-irons.

Who acts: loads, people · What happens: take, drag, place, set, stand · To what, where: wood, graveyard, Warlock, grave, Soldier, pyre

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 (loads, people), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 graveyard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 graveyard	det
9	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dragged	punct
11	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Warlock	det
13	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dragged	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 grave	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 grave	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 grave	nmod:poss
17	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dragged	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 placed	punct
19	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 placed	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 pyre	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pyre	det
23	pyre	pyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 placed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 set	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 set	cc
26	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	obj
28	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 set	xcomp
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 standing	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 people	det
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 standing	nsubj
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 standing	advmod
33	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 took	advcl
34	round	round	ADV	_	33 standing	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 circle	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 circle	det
37	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 standing	obl
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 brooms	case
39	brooms	broom	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 circle	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 shovels	punct
41	shovels	shovel	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 brooms	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 irons	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 irons	cc
44	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 irons	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 fire	punct
46	irons	iron	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	loads = load	the wood	the graveyard	fire irons obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wood=Theme into graveyard=Destination
2	drag	past	loads = load not said here	the Warlock	Soldier's grave		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent warlock=Theme out grave=Initial_Location
3	place	past	loads = load not said here	Soldier	the pyre		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on pyre=Destination
4	set	infinitive	loads = load not said here	wood		alight property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
5	stand	gerund	the people		a circle with brooms and shovels	all, round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=Location

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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