Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 64
The Devil, whose mouth was quite full, looked on for some time in silence.
Who acts: Devil · What happens: be, look on
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Devil), 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 Devil | det |
| 2 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 full | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mouth | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Devil | appos |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 full | cop |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 full | advmod |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 full | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 looked | compound:prt |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 silence | case |
| 16 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Devil | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look on | participle | the Devil not said here | time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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