Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 56
Then he took an awl, heated it red-hot, and applied it to her eye--her sound one.
Who acts: cord · What happens: take, heat, apply, sound · To what, where: awl, one
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 (cord), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 awl | det |
| 5 | awl | awl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 heated | punct |
| 7 | heated | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heated | obj |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hot | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 red | punct |
| 11 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 heated | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 applied | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 applied | cc |
| 14 | applied | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 applied | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 eye | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eye | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 applied | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 sound | punct |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sound | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 sound | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | cord | a awl | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent awl=Theme | |||
| 2 | heat | past | cord not said here | awl | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | apply | past | cord not said here | awl | to Granny's eye | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | sound | infinitive | cord not said here | one | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=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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