Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 127
Then the three-eyed sister was sent, and Marya by the same spell sent two of her eyes to sleep, but forgot the third.
Who acts: same spell · What happens: send, sleep, forget · To what, where: eyed sister, two, third
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 (same spell), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sister | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eyed | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 three | punct |
| 5 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | aux:pass |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Marya | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Marya | cc |
| 11 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 sent | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spell | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spell | amod |
| 15 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | advcl |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sent | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 two | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 sleep | mark |
| 22 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sent | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 forgot | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 forgot | cc |
| 25 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sent | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 third | det |
| 27 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 forgot | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the eyed sister | then | Marya obl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | past | the same spell | two of Marya's eyes | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | the same spell not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | forget | past | the same spell not said here | the third | tree rules |
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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