Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 117
But the stove is guarded by a seven-eyed goat; the moujik charms six of the eyes to sleep, but overlooks the seventh.
Who acts: eyed goat, moujik · What happens: guard, charm, sleep, overlook · To what, where: stove, six, seventh
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 (eyed goat, moujik), 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 | _ | 5 guarded | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stove | det |
| 3 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 guarded | aux:pass |
| 5 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 goat | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 goat | det |
| 8 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 eyed | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 seven | punct |
| 10 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 goat | amod |
| 11 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guarded | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 charms | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moujik | det |
| 14 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 charms | nsubj |
| 15 | charms | charm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 guarded | conj |
| 16 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 charms | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eyes | det |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 six | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sleep | mark |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 eyes | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 overlooks | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 overlooks | cc |
| 24 | overlooks | overlook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 charms | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 seventh | det |
| 26 | seventh | seventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 overlooks | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 guarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | present · passive | a eyed goat | the stove | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | charm | present | the moujik | six of the eyes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus six=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | the moujik not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | overlook | present | the moujik not said here | the seventh | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seventh=Theme |
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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