Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 79
So the Tsar's councillors went through all the towns and villages, and measured the feet of all the maidens against the golden slippers, and she was to be the bride of the Tsarevich whom the golden slippers fitted.
Who acts: councillors, daughter, golden slippers · What happens: go, measure, be, fit · To what, where: towns, feet, bride, Tsarevich
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 (councillors, daughter, golden slippers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 councillors | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Tsar | case |
| 5 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 towns | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 towns | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 towns | det |
| 10 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 villages | cc |
| 12 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 towns | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 measured | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 measured | cc |
| 15 | measured | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 feet | det |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 measured | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 maidens | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 maidens | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 maidens | det |
| 21 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 feet | nmod |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 slippers | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 slippers | det |
| 24 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 slippers | amod |
| 25 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 maidens | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bride | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bride | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bride | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 bride | cop |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 bride | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 bride | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bride | det |
| 33 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 measured | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Tsarevich | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Tsarevich | det |
| 36 | Tsarevich | Tsarevich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 bride | nmod |
| 37 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 fitted | obj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 slippers | det |
| 39 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 slippers | amod |
| 40 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fitted | nsubj |
| 41 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 Tsarevich | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Tsar's councillors | all towns and villages | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | measure | past | the Tsar's councillors not said here | the feet of all maidens against the golden slippers | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme foot=Value | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | daughter | the bride | of the Tsarevich | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fit | past | the golden slippers | the Tsarevich | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
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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