Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 112
Who can tell whence it sprung?"--But the moment the Tsarivna saw it, she cried, "That tree will be my ruin!
Who acts: moment, change, tree · What happens: tell, spring, see, cry, be · To what, where: tree, ruin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, change, tree), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 sprung | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprung | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprung | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 10 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tsarivna | det |
| 14 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 moment | appos |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ruin | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 ruin | punct |
| 22 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ruin | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 ruin | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ruin | cop |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 ruin | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | spring | participle · passive | tree | whence property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | the moment | tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | change | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | future | that tree | my ruin | 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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