Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 71
But counsellors from the strange land whispered dark sayings in the ears of the Tsarivna. "
Who acts: counsellors · What happens: whisper · To what, where: dark sayings, ears
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 (counsellors), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 whispered | cc |
| 2 | counsellors | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 whispered | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 land | amod |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 counsellors | nmod |
| 7 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sayings | amod |
| 9 | sayings | saying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 whispered | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 ears | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ears | det |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 whispered | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Tsarivna | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tsarivna | det |
| 15 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ears | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | counsellors from the strange land | dark sayings | the ears of the Tsarivna | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saying=Topic |
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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