Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 9
She cut them both off, the accursed one!"
Who acts: Katoma · What happens: cut, accurs · To what, where: eyes
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 (Katoma), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | obj |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 off | advmod |
| 5 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 cut | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | parataxis |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | Katoma | eyes = eye | off property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product | |||
| 2 | accurs | participle | 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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