Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 163
Impossible was it for him sufficiently to look at her, to gaze on her beauty!
What happens: be, look, gaze · To what, where: supper
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Impossible | obl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Impossible | obl |
| 6 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 8 look | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Impossible | parataxis |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gaze | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 gaze | mark |
| 13 | gaze | gaze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gaze | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | supper | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | at thing; sufficiently property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gaze | to-infinitive | on thing's beauty | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on beauty=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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