Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 96
In another, a colly dog jumped over a coffin which a funeral party had set on the ground while they rested. "
Who acts: colly dog, dog · What happens: jump, set, rest · To what, where: another, funeral party, ground
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 (colly dog, dog), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 another | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 jumped | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 another | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 5 | colly | colly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jumped | nsubj |
| 7 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 coffin | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coffin | det |
| 10 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jumped | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 set | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 party | det |
| 13 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 party | compound |
| 14 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | aux |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 coffin | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 rested | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rested | nsubj |
| 22 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 jumped | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 jumped | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | a colly dog | another | over a coffin | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in another=Trajectory over coffin=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | set | past · perfect · passive | a funeral party | the ground | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | rest | past | dog | 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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