Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 113

And they all sat down at table and ate and drank, and the Tsar himself and his courtiers distributed the meat and drink to the guests as much as they would, but to the unfortunate Tsar they gave a double portion of everything.

Who acts: people, Tsar · What happens: sit down, eat, drink, distribute, give · To what, where: table, meat, guests, double portion, unfortunate Tsar

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 (people, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sat	advmod
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 table	case
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ate	cc
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drank	cc
11	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ate	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 distributed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 distributed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Tsar	det
15	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 distributed	nsubj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 distributed	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 courtiers	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 courtiers	nmod:poss
19	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 himself	conj
20	distributed	distribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 meat	det
22	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 distributed	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drink	cc
24	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 meat	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 guests	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 guests	det
27	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 distributed	obl
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 guests	amod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 would	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 would	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 much	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 gave	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 gave	cc
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 Tsar	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Tsar	det
37	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Tsar	amod
38	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 gave	obl
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 gave	nsubj
40	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 portion	det
42	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 portion	amod
43	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gave	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 everything	case
45	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	43 portion	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	sit down	past	people			table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
2	eat	past	people not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	past	people not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	distribute	past	the Tsar	the meat and drink	the guests		vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent meat=Theme to guest=Recipient
5	give	past	people	a double portion of everything	the unfortunate Tsar		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent portion=Theme to tsar=Recipient

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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