Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 135
Its feathers blaze with silvery or golden sheen, its eyes shine like crystal, it dwells in a golden cage.
Who acts: feathers, eyes, notice · What happens: blaze, shine, dwell · To what, where: golden cage
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feathers, eyes, notice), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blaze | nsubj |
| 3 | blaze | blaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sheen | case |
| 5 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sheen | amod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 golden | cc |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 silvery | conj |
| 8 | sheen | sheen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blaze | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shine | punct |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shine | nsubj |
| 12 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 blaze | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 crystal | case |
| 14 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shine | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dwells | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dwells | nsubj |
| 17 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 blaze | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 cage | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cage | det |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cage | amod |
| 21 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dwells | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blaze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blaze | present | notice's feathers | with silvery sheen | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sheen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shine | present | notice's eyes | like crystal | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dwell | present | notice | a golden cage | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cage=Location |
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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