Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 126
But Marya uttered the words "Sleep, sleep, one-eye! sleep, sleep, other eye!" till the watcher fell asleep.
Who acts: Marya, watcher · What happens: utter, fall · To what, where: words
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 (Marya, watcher), 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 | _ | 3 uttered | cc |
| 2 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uttered | nsubj |
| 3 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 uttered | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sleep | punct |
| 7 | Sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sleep | punct |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eye | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 eye | nummod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 sleep | punct |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sleep | punct |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sleep | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eye | punct |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eye | amod |
| 20 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sleep | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 sleep | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sleep | punct |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 fell | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 watcher | det |
| 25 | watcher | watcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 uttered | advcl |
| 27 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fell | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | Marya | the words and Sleep and sleep and one eye | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the watcher | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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