Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 159

Are you blind that you can't see our hands and feet are quite dead?"

Who acts: you, hands · What happens: be, not see · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hands), 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	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blind	cop
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 blind	nsubj
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 see	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 see	advmod
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 blind	advcl
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dead	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 feet	cc
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hands	conj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	cop
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 dead	advmod
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 see	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 blind	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	you	blind property	tree rules
2	not see	can	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	our hands and feet	dead property	tree rules

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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