Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 133
Only the eyes of the skulls sent forth their light.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: send, light · To what, where: light
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 eyes | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eyes | det |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 skulls | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skulls | det |
| 6 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eyes | nmod |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 sent | advmod |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 light | nmod:poss |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the eyes of the skulls | eyes's light | forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | |||
| 2 | light | eyes = eye | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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