Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 152
When the man had listened to the angel, he said to him, "Tarry a while!
Who acts: man · What happens: listen, say, tarry · To what, where: angel · 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 (man), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 listened | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 listened | aux |
| 5 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 angel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 angel | det |
| 8 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 listened | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tarry | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tarry | punct |
| 16 | Tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 while | det |
| 18 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Tarry | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past · perfect | the man | to the angel | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to angel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | man | angel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | tarry in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | while | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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