Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 47
The demons have carried her off before our very eyes!"
What happens: carry off · To what, where: demons
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: 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 | 2 demons | det |
| 2 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | aux |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carried | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 carried | compound:prt |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 eyes | advmod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | present · perfect · passive | the demons | before our eyes | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Value |
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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