Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 29
So they took the skull into the room, and the burning eyes looked into the stepmother’s and the daughters’ and singed their eyes out.
Who acts: sisters, burning eyes · What happens: take, burn, look, singe out · To what, where: skull, room, eyes
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, burning eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skull | det |
| 5 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eyes | det |
| 12 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 eyes | amod |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 stepmother | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stepmother | det |
| 17 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 stepmother | case |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 daughters | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 daughters | det |
| 21 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stepmother | conj |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 singed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 singed | cc |
| 24 | singed | singe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 singed | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 singed | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | sisters = sister | the skull | the room | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent skull=Theme into room=Destination | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | look | past | the burning eyes | into the stepmother and the daughters | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into stepmother=Theme | ||||
| 4 | singe out | past | sisters = sister not said here | sisters's eyes | out property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: 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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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