Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 10

A fly will be sitting above my right eye--that will be a certain guide for you."

Who acts: fly, that · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: right eye, certain guide

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fly, that), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fly	det
2	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	above	above	ADP	_	9 eye	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eye	nmod:poss
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eye	amod
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 guide	punct
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 guide	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 guide	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 guide	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 guide	det
15	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 guide	amod
16	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eye	appos
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 guide	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	future · progressive	a fly			my right eye			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above eye=Location
2	is a	future	that	a certain guide				for you	tree rules

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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