Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 102
The grandfather always muttered his charm 'Sleep, eye!
Who acts: grandfather, charm · What happens: mutter, sleep · To what, where: Sleep
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, charm), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grandfather | det |
| 2 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 muttered | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 muttered | advmod |
| 4 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 charm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sleep | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 charm | case |
| 8 | Sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 muttered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eye | punct |
| 10 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sleep | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mutter speech: assert | past | the grandfather | man's charm's Sleep and eye | always property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Topic | |||
| 2 | sleep | man's charm | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/102/