Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 150
Or, perchance, the desire of thy heart is a good wife?
Who acts: perchance · What happens: be, desire · To what, where: good wife, heart
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 (perchance), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 wife | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 perchance | punct |
| 3 | perchance | perchance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wife | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 desire | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 desire | det |
| 6 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perchance | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 desire | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wife | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wife | amod |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | perchance | a good wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | desire | thy heart | nom desire «feeling 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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