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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

caseamodcasedetoblpunctnmod:desccompoundnsubjpunctcasedetnmodcasepunctdetamodcompoundnmodpunctpunctpunctcasenummodnmodpunctadvmodmarkdetnsubjcopparataxismarkxcompdetobjpunctdetnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctccdetnsubjauxconjmarkdetnsubjaux:passadvclpunctpunctrootAsADPillustrativeADJofADPthisDETideaNOUN,PUNCTMr.PROPNHendersonPROPNstatesNOUN,PUNCTonADPtheDETauthorityNOUNofADP"PUNCTanDEToldADJNorthumbrianPROPNhindNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTthatPRON"PUNCTinADPoneNUMcaseNOUN,PUNCTjustADVasSCONJaDETfuneralNOUNwasAUXaboutADJtoPARTleaveVERBtheDEThouseNOUN,PUNCTtheDETcatNOUNjumpedVERBoverADPtheDETcoffinNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJnoDEToneNOUNwouldAUXmoveVERBtillSCONJtheDETcatNOUNwasAUXdestroyedVERB.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasADP_2 illustrativecase
2illustrativeillustrativeADJDegree=Pos9 statesamod
3ofofADP_5 ideacase
4thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem5 ideadet
5ideaideaNOUNNumber=Sing2 illustrativeobl
6,,PUNCT_2 illustrativepunct
7Mr.Mr.PROPNNumber=Sing8 Hendersonnmod:desc
8HendersonHendersonPROPNNumber=Sing9 statescompound
9statesstateNOUNNumber=Plur22 thatnsubj
10,,PUNCT_13 authoritypunct
11ononADP_13 authoritycase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 authoritydet
13authorityauthorityNOUNNumber=Sing9 statesnmod
14ofofADP_19 hindcase
15""PUNCT_19 hindpunct
16anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 hinddet
17oldoldADJDegree=Pos19 hindamod
18NorthumbrianNorthumbrianPROPNNumber=Sing19 hindcompound
19hindhindNOUNNumber=Sing13 authoritynmod
20,,PUNCT_22 thatpunct
21""PUNCT_22 thatpunct
22thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Demrootroot
23""PUNCT_22 thatpunct
24ininADP_26 casecase
25oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card26 casenummod
26casecaseNOUNNumber=Sing22 thatnmod
27,,PUNCT_33 aboutpunct
28justjustADV_33 aboutadvmod
29asasSCONJ_33 aboutmark
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 funeraldet
31funeralfuneralNOUNNumber=Sing33 aboutnsubj
32wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 aboutcop
33aboutaboutADJDegree=Pos26 caseparataxis
34totoPART_35 leavemark
35leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf33 aboutxcomp
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 housedet
37househouseNOUNNumber=Sing35 leaveobj
38,,PUNCT_41 jumpedpunct
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 catdet
40catcatNOUNNumber=Sing41 jumpednsubj
41jumpedjumpVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin37 houseacl:relcl
42overoverADP_44 coffincase
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 coffindet
44coffincoffinNOUNNumber=Sing41 jumpedobl
45,,PUNCT_50 movepunct
46andandCCONJ_50 movecc
47nonoDETPronType=Neg48 onedet
48oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing50 movensubj
49wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin50 moveaux
50movemoveVERBVerbForm=Inf35 leaveconj
51tilltillSCONJ_55 destroyedmark
52thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art53 catdet
53catcatNOUNNumber=Sing55 destroyednsubj
54wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin55 destroyedaux:pass
55destroyeddestroyVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass50 moveadvcl
56..PUNCT_22 thatpunct
57""PUNCT_22 thatpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is in a quotepasta funeralabout propertytree rules
2leave in a quoteto-infinitivea funeral not said herethe housevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3jump in a quotepastthe catthe house not said herethe coffinvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent house=Theme over coffin=Trajectory
4move in a quotewouldno onevn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5destroy in a quotepast · passivethe catvn 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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