Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 44

I know not that myself, any more than if I had never seen the free light--never known a father and mother."

Who acts: I · What happens: not know, not see · To what, where: free light, father

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 know	advmod
4	that	that	ADP	_	5 myself	case
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 know	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
7	any	any	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 seen	advmod
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 seen	advmod
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 know	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 light	det
16	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 light	amod
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seen	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 known	punct
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 known	advmod
20	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 seen	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 father	det
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 known	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 mother	cc
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 father	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	present	I		that myself	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	the free light		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
3	not know	participle	I not said here	a father and mother		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus

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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