Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 77
Then the Tsar sent his wise councillors throughout the kingdom to find her. "
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: send, find · To what, where: wise councillors, daughter
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 councillors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 councillors | amod |
| 7 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 8 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Tsar | Tsar's wise councillors | throughout the kingdom; then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent councillor=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the Tsar not said here | daughter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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