Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 73
When they came from church they had all sorts of things to talk about, and how the young Tsarevich had fallen in love with the grand young lady, and how they were unable to tell him whence she came, or who she was, and the stepmother hated the old man's daughter all the more because she had done her work so nicely.
Who acts: rags, young Tsarevich, Lady, stepmother · What happens: come, have, talk about, fall, be, tell · To what, where: church, sorts, love, Tsarevich, daughter, work · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rags, young Tsarevich, Lady, stepmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 church | case |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 church | acl:relcl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 sorts | det |
| 9 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sorts | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 talk | mark |
| 13 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 things | acl |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 talk | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fallen | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fallen | cc |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 fallen | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tsarevich | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Tsarevich | amod |
| 20 | Tsarevich | Tsarevich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 fallen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fallen | aux |
| 22 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 came | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 love | case |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fallen | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 lady | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lady | det |
| 27 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lady | amod |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lady | amod |
| 29 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fallen | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 unable | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 unable | cc |
| 32 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 unable | advmod |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 unable | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 unable | cop |
| 35 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 tell | mark |
| 37 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 unable | xcomp |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 tell | iobj |
| 39 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 came | advmod |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 came | nsubj |
| 41 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 tell | ccomp |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 who | punct |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 who | cc |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 came | parataxis |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 was | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 who | acl:relcl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 hated | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 hated | cc |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 stepmother | det |
| 50 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 hated | nsubj |
| 51 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 unable | advcl |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 man | det |
| 53 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 man | amod |
| 54 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 55 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 54 man | case |
| 56 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 hated | obj |
| 57 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 59 more | det:predet |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 more | det |
| 59 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 51 hated | advmod |
| 60 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 63 done | mark |
| 61 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 done | nsubj |
| 62 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 63 done | aux |
| 63 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 51 hated | advcl |
| 64 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 65 work | nmod:poss |
| 65 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 done | obj |
| 66 | so | so | ADV | _ | 67 nicely | advmod |
| 67 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 63 done | advmod |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | rags = rag | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | rags = rag | all sorts of things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient | ||||
| 3 | talk about | to-infinitive | rags = rag not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | the young Tsarevich | love | with the grand young lady | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 5 | is | past | rags = rag | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | rags = rag not said here | Tsarevich | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | come | past | Lady | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hate | past | the stepmother | the old man's daughter | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | do | past · perfect | Lady | Lady's work | nicely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 10 | sort | things | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 11 | work | Lady | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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