Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 8

Well now," says he, "I've never set eyes on any harm.

Who acts: I · What happens: say, not set · To what, where: smith, eyes, harm · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 set	nsubj
10	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 set	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 set	advmod
12	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 says	conj
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 set	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 harm	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 harm	det
16	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present		smith			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	not set	present · perfect	I	eyes		any harm			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on harm=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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