Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 149
Dost thou want a tsardom, or great riches?
Who acts: thou · What happens: want · To what, where: tsardom
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 (thou), 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 | Dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | aux |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tsardom | det |
| 5 | tsardom | tsardom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 riches | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 riches | cc |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 riches | amod |
| 9 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tsardom | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · do-support | thou | a tsardom or great riches | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tsardom=Theme |
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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