Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 32
One day the Tsar said to him, "I marvel that thou art so unlucky, for do whatsoever thou wilt, thou art none the better for it.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: say, marvel · To what, where: God · 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 (Tsar), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tsar | det |
| 4 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 marvel | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 marvel | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 marvel | nsubj |
| 11 | marvel | marvel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 art | mark |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 art | nsubj |
| 14 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 marvel | advcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 unlucky | advmod |
| 16 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 marvel | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 do | case |
| 19 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marvel | obl |
| 20 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 22 wilt | advmod |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 wilt | nsubj |
| 22 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 marvel | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 art | punct |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 art | nsubj |
| 25 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 26 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 25 art | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 better | det |
| 28 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 art | ccomp |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 better | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Tsar | God | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | marvel in a quote | present | the Tsar = tsar | for do | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=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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