Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 97
There he stood in the middle of the church, fenced himself about with his boards, strewed consecrated poppy-seed around him, incensed himself with holy incense, and read and read.
Who acts: Michael, boards · What happens: stand, fence, strew, consecrate, incense, read · To what, where: middle, Michael, consecrated poppy seed
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, boards), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 middle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 middle | det |
| 6 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 church | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 church | det |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 middle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fenced | punct |
| 11 | fenced | fence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 fenced | obj |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 fenced | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 boards | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 boards | nmod:poss |
| 16 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fenced | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 strewed | punct |
| 18 | strewed | strew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 boards | acl |
| 19 | consecrated | consecrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 seed | amod |
| 20 | poppy | poppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seed | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 poppy | punct |
| 22 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strewed | obj |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seed | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 incensed | punct |
| 26 | incensed | incense | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 incensed | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 incense | case |
| 29 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 incense | amod |
| 30 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 incensed | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 read | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 read | cc |
| 33 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 read | cc |
| 35 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 33 read | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Michael | the middle of the church; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | ||||
| 2 | fence | past | Michael not said here | Michael | with Michael's boards; about property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with board=Theme | |||
| 3 | strew | participle | Michael's boards not said here | consecrated poppy seed | around Michael | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Theme around he=Destination | |||
| 4 | consecrate | participle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | incense | past | Michael not said here | Michael | with holy incense | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | read | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | read | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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