Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 116
Then the Tsar went a-hunting, and saw it swimming in the water, and it was so close that he could touch it with his hand.
Who acts: Tsar, hunting, water · What happens: go, see, swim, be, touch · To what, where: hunting, water
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 (Tsar, hunting, water), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hunting | det |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 a | punct |
| 7 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | obj |
| 12 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swimming | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 close | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 close | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 close | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 close | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 close | advmod |
| 21 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 touch | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 touch | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 touch | aux |
| 25 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 close | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 touch | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 touch | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Tsar | a hunting | then | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | the Tsar not said here | hunting | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swim | gerund | hunting not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | water | close property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | touch | could | Tsar | water | with Tsar's hand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with hand=Instrument |
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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