Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 114
And they all ate and drank their fill, and then the Tsar began to inquire of the people whether any had suffered wrong or had not had justice done him.
Who acts: people, Tsar · What happens: eat, drink, begin, inquire, suffer, not have · To what, where: fill, justice
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 ate | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ate | advmod |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 drank | cc |
| 6 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ate | conj |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fill | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drank | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 began | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tsar | det |
| 13 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ate | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 inquire | mark |
| 16 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 inquire | obl |
| 20 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 23 suffered | mark |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 suffered | det |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 suffered | aux |
| 23 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 inquire | advcl |
| 24 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 suffered | xcomp |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 had | cc |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 had | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 had | advmod |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 suffered | conj |
| 29 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obj |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 had | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 done | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drink | past | people not said here | people's fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the Tsar | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | the Tsar not said here | of the people | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of people=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | suffer | past · perfect | the Tsar not said here | wrong property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | not have | past · perfect | the Tsar not said here | justice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Patient | ||||
| 7 | do | participle | the Tsar not said here | justice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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