Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 20
But the eyes of the skull so glared at the stepmother and her daughters--shot forth such flames!
Who acts: eyes, stepmother · What happens: glare, shoot · To what, where: such flames
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, stepmother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 glared | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eyes | det |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glared | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 skull | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skull | det |
| 6 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eyes | nmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 glared | advmod |
| 8 | glared | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 stepmother | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stepmother | det |
| 11 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glared | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 daughters | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stepmother | conj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 shot | punct |
| 16 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stepmother | acl |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 flames | advmod |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flames | amod |
| 19 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shot | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 glared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glare | past | the eyes of the skull | at the stepmother and stepmother's daughters | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stepmother=Location | ||||
| 2 | shoot | participle | the stepmother and stepmother's daughters not said here | such flames | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/31/20/