Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 105

No Russian bone can the ear hear nor the eye see, but there's a smell of Russia here!"

Who acts: Russian bone, eye, smell, Russia · What happens: hear, see, be, smell

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian bone, eye, smell, Russia), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 bone	det
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bone	amod
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ear	det
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	nsubj
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	11 see	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eye	det
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hear	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 's	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 's	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 's	expl
15	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 smell	det
17	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 's	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Russia	case
19	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 smell	nmod
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 's	advmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	hear	can	no Russian bone		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	see	infinitive	the eye		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	be	present	a smell of Russia	here; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	smell		Russia		nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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