Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 57
There they stood for a long time looking into each other's eyes, but neither of them spoke a word.
Who acts: eyes, neither · What happens: stand, look, speak · To what, where: word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, neither), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 eyes | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 other | case |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spoke | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 spoke | cc |
| 16 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 spoke | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 neither | nmod |
| 19 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 word | det |
| 21 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spoke | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | eyes = eye | there | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | eyes = eye not said here | into each other eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | neither | a word | 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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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