Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 142
The third time he arose and looked into the spring, and there, sure enough, was his money: all nine of the gold pieces were floating on the surface of the water!
Who acts: brother, nine · What happens: arise, look, be, float · To what, where: money, surface
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, nine), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arose | nsubj |
| 5 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arose | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 spring | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spring | det |
| 10 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sure | cc |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 sure | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 arose | conj |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 sure | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 money | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 money | cop |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 money | nmod:poss |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 nine | punct |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 nine | det |
| 23 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 floating | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pieces | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pieces | det |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pieces | compound |
| 27 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 nine | nmod |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 floating | aux |
| 29 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 arose | ccomp |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 surface | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 surface | det |
| 32 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 floating | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 water | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 water | det |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 surface | nmod |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | brother | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | brother not said here | spring | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | brother's money | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | float | past · progressive | all nine of the gold pieces | the surface of the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory |
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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