Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 122
God hath tried thee and chastised thy pride these ten years.
Who acts: thy · What happens: try, chastise, pride · To what, where: God, pride
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 (thy), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | aux:pass |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 tried | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 chastised | cc |
| 6 | chastised | chastise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 pride | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chastised | obj |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 years | det |
| 10 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chastised | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present · passive | God | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer thou=Result | |||||
| 2 | chastise | past | thy pride | year | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pride | thy | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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