Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 96
The first had one eye, the second two eyes, the third three, and so on with the rest, the last having twelve eyes.
Who acts: first · What happens: have · To what, where: one eye, last
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eye | nummod |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eyes | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eyes | det |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 eyes | amod |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 eyes | nummod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eye | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 three | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 three | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 three | amod |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eye | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 on | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 on | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 on | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 had | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 rest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rest | det |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 on | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 having | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 last | det |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 having | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 had | conj |
| 26 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 eyes | nummod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 having | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the first | one eye and the second two eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | the first not said here | the last | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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