Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 18

He looked at them and took her above whose right eye sat a fly.

Who acts: man, right eye · What happens: look, take, sit · To what, where: bride, fly

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 (man, right eye), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	above	above	ADP	_	12 sat	mark
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 eye	nmod:poss
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eye	amod
11	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fly	det
14	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	man			at steps = step	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
2	take	past	man not said here		bride		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
3	sit	past	right eye	a fly			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fly=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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