Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 117
The Tsar took off his clothes and plunged into the water after it, and it enticed him farther and farther away from the shore.
Who acts: Tsar, water · What happens: take off, plunge, entice · To what, where: clothes, water, Tsar
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 plunged | cc |
| 8 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plunged | obl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 water | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 enticed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 enticed | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 enticed | nsubj |
| 17 | enticed | entice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 enticed | obj |
| 19 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 enticed | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 away | cc |
| 21 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 away | advmod |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 farther | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 shore | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 shore | det |
| 25 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 away | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | the Tsar | Tsar's clothes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plunge | participle | the Tsar not said here | the water after water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | entice | past | water | Tsar | far property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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