Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 136

The old man looked out of window--the goat's horns and beard caught his eye--it was the Devil himself, no doubt of it.

Who acts: old man, horns, beard · What happens: look out, catch, be, doubt · To what, where: window, eye, Devil, doubt

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, horns, beard), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 window	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 window	case
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 caught	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goat	det
10	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 horns	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 goat	case
12	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 caught	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 beard	cc
14	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 horns	conj
15	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eye	nmod:poss
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 caught	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 Devil	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 Devil	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Devil	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Devil	det
22	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 caught	obl
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 Devil	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 doubt	punct
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 doubt	det
26	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Devil	appos
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 doubt	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look out	past	the old man	window		tree rules
2	catch	past	the goat's horns and beard	man's eye		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	is a	past	beard	the Devil	man nmod	tree rules
4	doubt			doubt		nom doubt «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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