Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 23

He "lies on an iron couch, and sees nothing; his long eyelashes and thick eyebrows completely hide his eyes," but he sends for "twelve mighty heroes," and orders them to take iron forks and lift up the hair about his eyes, and then he gazes at the destroyer of his family.

Who acts: Ivan, long eyelashes · What happens: lie, see, hide, send, order, take · To what, where: iron couch, nothing, eyes, iron forks, hair

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (Ivan, long eyelashes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lies	nsubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lies	punct
3	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 couch	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 couch	det
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 couch	compound
7	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sees	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sees	cc
10	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lies	conj
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 sees	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hide	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyelashes	nmod:poss
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eyelashes	amod
15	eyelashes	eyelash	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hide	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eyebrows	cc
17	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eyebrows	amod
18	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eyelashes	conj
19	completely	completely	ADV	_	20 hide	advmod
20	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lies	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eyes	nmod:poss
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hide	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hide	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 hide	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 sends	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sends	nsubj
27	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lies	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 heroes	case
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 heroes	punct
30	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 heroes	nummod
31	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 heroes	amod
32	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sends	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 heroes	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 heroes	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 orders	cc
36	orders	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sends	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 orders	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 take	mark
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 orders	xcomp
40	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 forks	compound
41	forks	fork	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 take	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lift	cc
43	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 take	conj
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 lift	compound:prt
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 hair	det
46	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lift	obj
47	about	about	ADP	_	49 eyes	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 eyes	nmod:poss
49	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 hair	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 gazes	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 gazes	cc
52	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	54 gazes	advmod
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 gazes	nsubj
54	gazes	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lies	conj
55	at	at	ADP	_	57 destroyer	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 destroyer	det
57	destroyer	destroyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 gazes	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 family	case
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 family	nmod:poss
60	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 destroyer	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie in a quote	present	Ivan			a iron couch			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location
2	see in a quote	present	Ivan not said here	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	hide in a quote	present	Ivan's long eyelashes and thick eyebrows	Ivan's eyes				completely property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	send	present	Ivan					for twelve mighty heroes	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	order	present	Ivan not said here		eyes = eye				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here	iron forks					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=Theme
7	lift up	present	Ivan not said here	the hair				about Ivan's eyes	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hair=Theme about eye=Destination
8	gaze	present	Ivan				then	at the destroyer of Ivan's family	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at destroyer=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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