Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 120
While on the subject of eyes, it may be remarked that the story of "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes," rendered so familiar to juvenile English readers by translations from the German,[230] appears among the Russian tales in a very archaic and heathenish form.
Who acts: Three Eyes · What happens: remark, render, appear · To what, where: plumpest, subject, familiar English readers, Russian tales
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 (Three 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 remarked | mark |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 subject | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 subject | det |
| 4 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remarked | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 subject | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 subject | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 remarked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 remarked | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 remarked | aux:pass |
| 11 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 appears | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 story | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remarked | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Eye | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Eye | punct |
| 17 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 Eye | nummod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 One | punct |
| 19 | Eye | Eye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 story | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Eyes | punct |
| 21 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 Eyes | nummod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Two | punct |
| 23 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 story | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 rendered | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 rendered | cc |
| 26 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 Eyes | nummod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Three | punct |
| 28 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rendered | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Eyes | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Eyes | punct |
| 31 | rendered | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 remarked | advcl |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 familiar | advmod |
| 33 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 readers | amod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 juvenile | case |
| 35 | juvenile | juvenile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 familiar | obl |
| 36 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 readers | amod |
| 37 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rendered | obj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 translations | case |
| 39 | translations | translation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rendered | obl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 German | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 German | det |
| 42 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 translations | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 230 | punct |
| 44 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 45 230 | punct |
| 45 | 230 | 230 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 rendered | obl |
| 46 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 45 230 | punct |
| 47 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 48 | among | among | ADP | _ | 51 tales | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 tales | det |
| 50 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 tales | amod |
| 51 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 appears | obl |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 form | case |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 form | det |
| 54 | very | very | ADV | _ | 55 archaic | advmod |
| 55 | archaic | archaic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 form | amod |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 heathenish | cc |
| 57 | heathenish | heathenish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 archaic | conj |
| 58 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 tales | nmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | may · passive | plumpest = plump | the subject of eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | render | past | Three Eyes | familiar English readers | by translations from the German; 230 obl | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reader=Theme | |||
| 3 | appear | present | the Russian tales in a archaic form | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tale=Location |
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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