Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 95
As illustrative of this idea, Mr. Henderson states, on the authority of "an old Northumbrian hind," that "in one case, just as a funeral was about to leave the house, the cat jumped over the coffin, and no one would move till the cat was destroyed."
Who acts: funeral, cat, one · What happens: be, leave, jump, move, destroy · To what, where: house, coffin, cat
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funeral, cat, one), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 illustrative | case |
| 2 | illustrative | illustrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 states | amod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 idea | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 idea | det |
| 5 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 illustrative | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustrative | punct |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Henderson | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Henderson | Henderson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 states | compound |
| 9 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 that | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 authority | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 authority | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 authority | det |
| 13 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 states | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hind | case |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hind | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hind | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hind | amod |
| 18 | Northumbrian | Northumbrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 hind | compound |
| 19 | hind | hind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 authority | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 that | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 that | punct |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 that | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 case | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 case | nummod |
| 26 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 that | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 about | punct |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 33 about | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 about | mark |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 funeral | det |
| 31 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 about | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 about | cop |
| 33 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 case | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 leave | mark |
| 35 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 about | xcomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 house | det |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 leave | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 jumped | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 cat | det |
| 40 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 jumped | nsubj |
| 41 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 house | acl:relcl |
| 42 | over | over | ADP | _ | 44 coffin | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 coffin | det |
| 44 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 jumped | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 move | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 move | cc |
| 47 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 48 one | det |
| 48 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 move | nsubj |
| 49 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 move | aux |
| 50 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 leave | conj |
| 51 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 55 destroyed | mark |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 cat | det |
| 53 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 destroyed | nsubj |
| 54 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 55 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 move | advcl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 that | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 that | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | a funeral | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | to-infinitive | a funeral not said here | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | jump in a quote | past | the cat | the house not said here | the coffin | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent house=Theme over coffin=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | move in a quote | would | no one | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | destroy in a quote | past · passive | the cat | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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