Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 124
(or, "How can that be?") but Wednesday glared at her angrily; her eyes just did sparkle!
Who acts: Wednesday, eyes · What happens: glare, do · To what, where: sparkle
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wednesday, 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 be | punct |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 be | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 or | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 be | punct |
| 5 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 be | advmod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 be | aux |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 be | nsubj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 but | cop |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 be | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 be | punct |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 be | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 glared | cc |
| 13 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 glared | nsubj |
| 14 | glared | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 glared | obl |
| 17 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 14 glared | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
| 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 | 22 did | nsubj |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 did | advmod |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 glared | conj |
| 23 | sparkle | sparkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 did | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 glared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glare | past | Wednesday | at woman; angrily property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location | ||||
| 2 | do | past | woman's eyes | sparkle | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparkle=Eventuality |
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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