Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 21
They would fain have hidden themselves, but run where they would, everywhere did the eyes follow after them.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: fain, hide, run, do, follow · To what, where: eyes
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fain | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fain | aux |
| 3 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hidden | aux |
| 5 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 fain | advcl |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 hidden | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 run | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 run | cc |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fain | conj |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 would | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 would | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 run | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 14 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 did | advmod |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fain | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eyes | det |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 follow | nsubj |
| 18 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 did | ccomp |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 follow | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fain | would | eyes = eye | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hide | present · perfect | eyes = eye not said here | eyes = eye | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 3 | run | present | eyes = eye not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past | everywhere property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | follow | present | the eyes | after skulls = skull | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after they=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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