Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 68

But the Tsarevich had a jester who was always with him, and used always to jest and cut capers whenever this child of the Tsar was sad.

Who acts: Tsarevich, jester, child · What happens: have, be, use, jest, cut · To what, where: jester, capers

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 (Tsarevich, jester, child), 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	_	4 had	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsarevich	det
3	Tsarevich	Tsarevich	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jester	det
6	jester	jester	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 him	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 him	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 him	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 jester	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 used	cc
14	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 used	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 jest	mark
17	jest	jest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 used	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cut	cc
19	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 jest	conj
20	capers	caper	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cut	obj
21	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 sad	advmod
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sad	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Tsar	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Tsar	det
26	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 child	nmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sad	cop
28	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cut	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Tsarevich	a jester		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jester=Patient
2	is	past	a jester		with heart; always property	tree rules
3	use	past	the Tsarevich not said here		always property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	jest speech: other	to-infinitive	the Tsarevich not said here			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cut	infinitive	the Tsarevich not said here	capers		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset caper=Product
6	is	past	this child of the Tsar		sad, whenever property	tree rules

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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