Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 18
She replies she has seen none, her eyes being full of tears caused by the death of the Rakshasa prince Agnisikha.
Who acts: demon, eyes, Agnisikha · What happens: reply, see, be, cause, die · To what, where: none, tears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demon, eyes, Agnisikha), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replies | nsubj |
| 2 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 replies | ccomp |
| 6 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 seen | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | nsubj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 full | cop |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 replies | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tears | case |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tears | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 death | det |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caused | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Agnisikha | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Agnisikha | det |
| 20 | Rakshasa | Rakshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 prince | compound |
| 21 | prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Agnisikha | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Agnisikha | Agnisikha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 death | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | present | demon | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | demon | none | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | demon's eyes | of tears; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cause | participle | tears not said here | by the death of the Agnisikha Rakshasa prince | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | die | the Agnisikha Rakshasa prince | nom death «event 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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