Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 85
[416] Beyond this he will not go, and he quotes a number of passages from Hellenic writers to prove that in ancient Greece spectres were frequently represented as delighting in blood, and sometimes as exercising a power to destroy.
Who acts: 416, Bernhard · What happens: not go, quote, prove, represent, delight, exercise · To what, where: number, blood, power
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 (416, Bernhard), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 416 | punct |
| 2 | 416 | 416 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 go | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 416 | punct |
| 4 | Beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 416 | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 go | advmod |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 quotes | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 quotes | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 quotes | nsubj |
| 13 | quotes | quote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 number | det |
| 15 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 quotes | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 passages | case |
| 17 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 number | nmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 writers | case |
| 19 | Hellenic | Hellenic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 writers | compound |
| 20 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 passages | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 prove | mark |
| 22 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 quotes | advcl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 represented | mark |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 spectres | case |
| 25 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 spectres | amod |
| 26 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 spectres | compound |
| 27 | spectres | spectre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 represented | obl |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 represented | aux:pass |
| 29 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 30 represented | advmod |
| 30 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 prove | ccomp |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 delighting | mark |
| 32 | delighting | delight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 represented | advcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 blood | case |
| 34 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 delighting | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 exercising | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 exercising | cc |
| 37 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 39 exercising | advmod |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 exercising | mark |
| 39 | exercising | exercise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 go | advcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 power | det |
| 41 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 exercising | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 destroy | mark |
| 43 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 power | acl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | future | 416 beyond this | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | quote speech: other | present | Bernhard | a number of passages from Hellenic writers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 3 | prove | to-infinitive | Bernhard not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | represent | past · passive | Bernhard not said here | in ancient Greece spectres; frequently property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: in spectre=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | delight | gerund | Bernhard not said here | blood | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | exercise | gerund | 416 beyond this not said here | a power | sometimes property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | |||
| 7 | destroy | to-infinitive | 416 beyond this not said here | a power not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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