Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 61
The doll fed, and its eyes began to glow just like a couple of candles.
Who acts: doll, eyes · What happens: feed, begin, glow · To what, where: couple
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 (doll, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 doll | det |
| 2 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fed | nsubj |
| 3 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 glow | mark |
| 10 | glow | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 couple | advmod |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 couple | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 couple | det |
| 14 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 glow | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 candles | case |
| 16 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 couple | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | participle | the doll | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | doll's eyes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | glow | to-infinitive | doll's eyes not said here | a couple of candles | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent couple=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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