Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 97

If fine salt be scattered on the floor of a room, the vampire's footsteps may be traced to his grave, in which he will be found resting with rosy cheek and gory mouth.

Who acts: name · What happens: trace, find, rest · To what, where: scattered footsteps, name

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 (name), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 scattered	mark
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 salt	amod
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scattered	nsubj:pass
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 scattered	aux:pass
5	scattered	scatter	ADJ	_	16 footsteps	amod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scattered	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 floor	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scattered	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 vampire	det
14	vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 footsteps	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 vampire	case
16	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 traced	nsubj:pass
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 traced	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 traced	aux:pass
19	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 grave	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 grave	nmod:poss
22	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 traced	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 found	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 found	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 found	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 found	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 found	aux:pass
29	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 traced	conj
30	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 found	xcomp
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 cheek	case
32	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cheek	amod
33	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 resting	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 mouth	cc
35	gory	gory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 mouth	amod
36	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cheek	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 traced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trace	may · passive		the vampire's scattered footsteps	to name's grave	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	find	future · passive		name		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
3	rest	gerund	name not said here		with rosy cheek and gory mouth	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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