Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 214

"I can see well enough by the bridegroom's eyes that the bride is to his taste, only I don't know what the bride thinks about taking him."

Who acts: Aunt, eyes, bride · What happens: see, be, not know, think, take · To what, where: bridegroom · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (Aunt, eyes, bride), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 see	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridegroom	det
9	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eyes	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 bridegroom	case
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 taste	nsubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bride	det
14	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taste	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 taste	cop
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 taste	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 taste	nmod:poss
18	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eyes	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
20	only	only	ADV	_	24 know	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 know	advmod
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	conj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 thinks	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bride	det
27	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 thinks	nsubj
28	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 know	ccomp
29	about	about	SCONJ	_	30 taking	mark
30	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 thinks	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 taking	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	can	Aunt		by the bridegroom's eyes; enough, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is in a quote	present	the bridegroom's eyes		to bridegroom's taste	tree rules
3	not know in a quote	present · do-support	Aunt			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	think speech: other in a quote	present	the bride			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
5	take in a quote	gerund	the bride not said here	bridegroom		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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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