Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 55
But the girl gazed and just blinked with her eyes, understanding nothing.
Who acts: girl · What happens: gaze, blink, understand · To what, where: nothing
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 (girl), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 gazed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gazed | nsubj |
| 4 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 blinked | cc |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 blinked | advmod |
| 7 | blinked | blink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gazed | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blinked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 understanding | punct |
| 12 | understanding | understand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 blinked | advcl |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 understanding | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | the girl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | blink | participle | the girl not said here | with girl's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | understand | gerund | the girl not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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