--- title: While on the subject of eyes, it may be remarked that the story of "… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: While on the subject of eyes, it may be remarked that the story of "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes," rendered so familiar to juvenile English readers by translations from the German,[230] appears among the Russian tales in a very archaic and heathenish form. Who acts: Three Eyes. A sentence of «R --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/120/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/) / 120 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 120 While on the subject of eyes, it may be remarked that the story of "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes," rendered so familiar to juvenile English readers by translations from the German,\[230\] appears among the Russian tales in a very archaic and heathenish form. **Who acts:** Three Eyes · **What happens:** remark, render, appear · **To what, where:** plumpest, subject, familiar English readers, Russian tales This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (Three Eyes), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:35:120 # text = While on the subject of eyes, it may be remarked that the story of "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes," rendered so familiar to juvenile English readers by translations from the German,[230] appears among the Russian tales in a very archaic and heathenish form. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 remarked remark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 nsubj _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Eye Eye PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 rendered render VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 familiar familiar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 juvenile juvenile NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 readers reader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 translations translation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 German German PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 230 230 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 47 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 48 among among ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 54 very very ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 55 archaic archaic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 heathenish heathenish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 conj _ _ 58 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 47 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | may · passive | | plumpest *= plump* | | the subject of eyes | | | tree rules | | 2 | **render** | past | Three Eyes | familiar English readers | | | | by translations from the German; 230 *obl* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reader=Theme | | 3 | **appear** | present | | | | the Russian tales in a archaic form | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tale=Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/121/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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