Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 148
Then an angel flew down to him, and said, "Oh, thou that hast offered this sweet-smelling sacrifice to God, what dost thou want for thine own self?
Who acts: angel · What happens: fly down, say, offer, smell, do, want · To what, where: brother, smelling sacrifice, God · 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 (angel), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 angel | det |
| 3 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thou | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 thou | punct |
| 13 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 thou | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Oh | punct |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 offered | mark |
| 17 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 offered | aux:pass |
| 18 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 sacrifice | det |
| 20 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 smelling | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sweet | punct |
| 22 | smelling | smell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 sacrifice | amod |
| 23 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 offered | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 God | case |
| 25 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sacrifice | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dost | punct |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 dost | obj |
| 28 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sacrifice | conj |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 dost | obj |
| 30 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 dost | xcomp |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 self | case |
| 32 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 self | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 self | amod |
| 34 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 want | obl |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly down | past | a angel | brother | then | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | a angel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | offer in a quote | present · passive | this smelling sacrifice | God | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: sacrifice=Theme to god=Goal | ||||
| 4 | smell in a quote | gerund | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present | this smelling sacrifice | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | want in a quote | infinitive | for thine own self | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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