Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 6

There came flying birds from every part of the world, and all but pecked our eyes out."

What happens: come, fly, peck out · To what, where: flying birds, part, eyes

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 came	expl
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 birds	amod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 part	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 part	det
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pecked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pecked	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 pecked	advmod
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 pecked	cc
15	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pecked	obj
18	out	out	ADV	_	15 pecked	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	flying birds	every part of the world; there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
2	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	peck out	past	our eyes		out property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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