Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 47
Is it perchance some princess or some queen? for the like of it we have never seen before."
Who acts: church, the · What happens: be, not see
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church, the), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 perchance | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 perchance | nsubj |
| 3 | perchance | perchance | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perchance | nsubj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 queen | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 princess | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 perchance | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 seen | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 the | nmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 seen | advmod |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 perchance | advcl |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 seen | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 perchance | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 perchance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | church | perchance property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | present · perfect | the | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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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