Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 105
But with the twelfth goat he failed, for he charmed only eleven of her eyes.
Who acts: first · What happens: fail, charm · To what, where: eleven
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 (first), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 failed | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 goat | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goat | det |
| 4 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goat | amod |
| 5 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 failed | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 failed | nsubj |
| 7 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 charmed | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 charmed | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 charmed | nsubj |
| 11 | charmed | charm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 failed | advcl |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 eleven | advmod |
| 13 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 charmed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eleven | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | first | with the twelfth goat | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | charm | past | first | eleven of Wailer's eyes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eleven=Experiencer |
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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