Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 97
It was felt by all that the dog must be killed, without hesitation, before they proceeded farther, and killed it was."
Who acts: dog · What happens: feel, kill, proceed, be · To what, where: It, dog, hesitation
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | aux:pass |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 felt | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 killed | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 killed | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 killed | aux:pass |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 felt | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hesitation | punct |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 hesitation | case |
| 14 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 proceeded | punct |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 proceeded | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 proceeded | nsubj |
| 18 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | parataxis |
| 19 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 proceeded | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 killed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 killed | cc |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 proceeded | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 killed | obj |
| 24 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 killed | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · passive | It | by all | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by all=Location | ||||
| 2 | kill | must · passive | the dog | without hesitation | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | dog | far property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | dog not said here | hesitation | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be | past | dog not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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