Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 89

The wolf goes out to count them, and Zachary sleeps in comfort, till just before it comes back to say that the living are more numerous than the dead.

Who acts: wolf, Zachary, comfort, living · What happens: go out, count, sleep, come back, say, be · To what, where: folks, comfort · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, Zachary, comfort, living), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 goes	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 count	mark
6	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goes	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 count	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sleeps	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sleeps	cc
10	Zachary	Zachary	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sleeps	nsubj
11	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 comfort	case
13	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleeps	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 comes	punct
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 comes	mark
16	just	just	ADV	_	19 comes	advmod
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 comes	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 comes	nsubj
19	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sleeps	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 comes	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 say	mark
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 comes	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 numerous	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 living	det
25	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 numerous	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 numerous	cop
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 numerous	advmod
28	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 say	ccomp
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 dead	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dead	det
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 numerous	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	present	the wolf			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	count	to-infinitive	the wolf not said here	folks = folk			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	sleep	present	Zachary		comfort		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in comfort=Location
4	come back	present	comfort				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	comfort not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	the living			than the dead; numerous property	tree rules

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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