Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 99

When he has finished his own store of flesh, he rises at midnight and destroys cattle, or climbs a belfry and sounds the bell.

Who acts: name · What happens: finish, rise, destroy, climb, sound · To what, where: own store, cattle, belfry, bell

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 rises	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 store	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 store	amod
7	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 flesh	case
9	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 store	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rises	nsubj
12	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 midnight	case
14	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rises	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 destroys	cc
16	destroys	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 rises	conj
17	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 destroys	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 climbs	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 climbs	cc
20	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 rises	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 belfry	det
22	belfry	belfry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 climbs	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sounds	cc
24	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 climbs	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bell	det
26	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sounds	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 rises	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	finish	present · perfect	name	name's own store of flesh		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector store=Eventuality
2	rise	present	name		midnight	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	destroy	present	name not said here	cattle		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient
4	climb	present	name not said here	a belfry		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location belfry=Theme
5	sound	present	name not said here	the bell		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=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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