Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 116

The plumpest of these they used to sell to cannibals who had but one eye apiece, situated in the forehead.

Who acts: plumpest, cannibals · What happens: use, sell, have, situate · To what, where: cannibals, forehead

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plumpest, cannibals), 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 plumpest	det
2	plumpest	plump	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 used	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 these	case
4	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 plumpest	nmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sell	mark
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 cannibals	case
10	cannibals	cannibal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sell	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cannibals	acl:relcl
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 apiece	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 apiece	nummod
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 apiece	compound
16	apiece	apiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cannibals	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 situated	punct
18	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cannibals	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 forehead	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 forehead	det
21	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 situated	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	use	past	the plumpest of these				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sell	to-infinitive	the plumpest of these not said here		cannibals but one eye apiece		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cannibal=Recipient
3	have	past	cannibals but one eye apiece				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	situate	participle		cannibals but one eye apiece not said here		the forehead	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in forehead=Destination

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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