Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 144

The old woman sends to sleep the ears and the eyes of the first and the second goat; but when the third watches it retains the use of its fourth eye and fourth ear, in spite of the incantations uttered by the intruder, and so finds her out.

Who acts: old woman, third · What happens: send, sleep, watch, retain, utter, find out · To what, where: ears, four, use, spite, incantations, woman

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 (old woman, third), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sends	nsubj
4	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sends	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ears	det
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sleep	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eyes	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eyes	det
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ears	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 first	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 first	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 eyes	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 goat	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 goat	det
17	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 goat	amod
18	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 first	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 retains	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 retains	cc
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 watches	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 third	det
23	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 watches	nsubj
24	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 retains	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 watches	obj
26	retains	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sends	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 use	det
28	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 retains	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 eye	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eye	nmod:poss
31	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 eye	amod
32	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 use	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ear	cc
34	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 ear	amod
35	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eye	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 spite	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 spite	case
38	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 retains	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 incantations	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 incantations	det
41	incantations	incantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 spite	nmod
42	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 incantations	acl
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 intruder	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 intruder	det
45	intruder	intruder	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 uttered	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 finds	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 finds	cc
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 finds	advmod
49	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sends	conj
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 finds	obj
51	out	out	ADP	_	49 finds	compound:prt
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	present	the old woman				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	the ears and the eyes of the first and the second goat			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
3	watch	present	the third	four			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	retain	present	the old woman not said here	the use of four's fourth eye and fourth ear	spite of the incantations		tree rules
5	utter speech: other	participle		the incantations not said here		by the intruder	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	find out	present	the old woman not said here	woman			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
7	use			four's fourth eye and fourth ear			nom use «act transitive»: of=patient
8	spite			the incantations			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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