Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 138
How long he slept there, who can tell? but at any rate he woke up at last and went to the spring, but there was no sign of his money to be seen.
Who acts: brother, sign · What happens: sleep, tell, wake up, go, be, see · To what, where: rate, money · 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 (brother, sign), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 slept | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 slept | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | aux |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 slept | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 woke | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 rate | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 rate | det |
| 14 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 woke | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 woke | nsubj |
| 16 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 woke | compound:prt |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woke | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 woke | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 spring | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spring | det |
| 24 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 was | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 was | cc |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 was | expl |
| 28 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slept | parataxis |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 sign | det |
| 30 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 was | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 money | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 money | nmod:poss |
| 33 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sign | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 seen | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 seen | aux:pass |
| 36 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 money | acl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | brother | there | long property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | can | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | wake up | past | brother | any rate | at last | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | go | past | brother not said here | spring | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be | past | no sign of brother's money | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive · passive | no sign of brother's money not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 7 | sign | brother's money | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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