Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 104
What is this wonder?" thought he, "that the haughty Tsar should have become so just and gentle."--But all men marvelled at the change that had come over the Tsar.
Who acts: priest, men, change · What happens: be, think, become, marvell, come · To what, where: wonder, change, Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest, men, change), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonder | cop |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wonder | det |
| 4 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonder | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonder | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 become | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 become | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 become | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tsar | det |
| 13 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Tsar | amod |
| 14 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 become | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 become | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 become | aux |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 gentle | advmod |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 gentle | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gentle | cc |
| 21 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 become | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 gentle | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 gentle | punct |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 marvelled | punct |
| 25 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 marvelled | cc |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 men | det |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 marvelled | nsubj |
| 28 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 become | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 change | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 change | det |
| 31 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 marvelled | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 come | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 come | aux |
| 34 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 change | acl:relcl |
| 35 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 Tsar | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Tsar | det |
| 37 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 come | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: ask | present | this wonder | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | become | should · perfect | priest | gentle property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | marvell in a quote | past | all men | the change | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | past · perfect | the change | the Tsar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over tsar=Initial_Location |
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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