Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 121
Then all the courtiers hailed him as the Tsar, but he said, "Where is that damsel who was here just now?"--They brought her instantly before him. "
Who acts: courtiers, Tsar, damsel · What happens: hail, say, be, bring · To what, where: Tsar, damsel · 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 (courtiers, Tsar, damsel), 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 | 5 hailed | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 courtiers | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 courtiers | det |
| 4 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hailed | nsubj |
| 5 | hailed | hail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hailed | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Tsar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tsar | det |
| 9 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hailed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hailed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 damsel | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Where | punct |
| 16 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 damsel | advmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 damsel | cop |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 damsel | mark |
| 19 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 here | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 here | cop |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 damsel | acl |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 now | advmod |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 here | advmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 damsel | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 damsel | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 brought | punct |
| 28 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brought | nsubj |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hailed | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brought | obj |
| 31 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 29 brought | advmod |
| 32 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brought | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hailed | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hail | past | all courtiers | Tsar | then | as the Tsar | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as tsar=Attribute | ||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Tsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | damsel | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | damsel | now | here property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | bring | past | courtiers = courtier | damsel | before Tsar | instantly property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme before he=Destination |
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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