Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 80

The eyes of all the skulls on the fence began to shine and the whole clearing became as bright as if it had been midday.

Who acts: eyes, whole clearing, darkness · What happens: begin, shine, become, be

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, whole clearing, darkness), 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 eyes	det
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 began	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 skulls	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 skulls	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skulls	det
6	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eyes	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 fence	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fence	det
9	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skulls	nmod
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 shine	mark
12	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 became	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 clearing	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clearing	amod
16	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 became	nsubj
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 bright	advmod
19	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	xcomp
20	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	25 midday	case
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 as	fixed
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 midday	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 midday	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 midday	cop
25	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bright	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the eyes of all skulls on the fence		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shine	to-infinitive	the eyes of all skulls on the fence not said here		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past	the whole clearing	bright property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past · perfect	darkness	as midday	tree rules

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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