Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 6
"You haven't been blind all your life?"
Who acts: You · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (You), 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 | _ | 6 blind | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 blind | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blind | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 blind | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 blind | cop |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 life | det:predet |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blind | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 blind | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 blind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present · perfect | You | your life obl:unmarked; blind 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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