--- title: The grave opened, and out of it came a corpse--wrapped in a white sh… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The grave opened, and out of it came a corpse--wrapped in a white shroud, and holding a coffin lid--came out and ran to the church, laid the coffin-lid at the door, and then set off for the village. Who acts: grave. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grave), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:53:68 # text = The grave opened, and out of it came a corpse--wrapped in a white shroud, and holding a coffin lid--came out and ran to the church, laid the coffin-lid at the door, and then set off for the village. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 out out ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 9 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 corpse corpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 shroud shroud NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 out out ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 44 advmod _ _ 44 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 45 off off ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | participle | the grave | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | | a corpse | | movement | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location corpse=Theme | | 3 | **wrap** | participle | | a corpse *not said here* | | a white shroud | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in shroud=Destination | | 4 | **hold** | gerund | | a coffin lid | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | | 5 | **come out** | past | | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **run** | past | | | | | | to the church *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to church=Result | | 7 | **lay** | past | | the coffin lid | | the door | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lid=Theme at door=Destination | | 8 | **set off** | infinitive | | | | | then | for the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/53/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/53/69/) - ↑ back to [Ghost Stories., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/53/)