Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 163
Thou art too young for a tsardom, and great riches last but for a little while; ask God for a good wife, for if it please God to give thee a good wife, 'tis a gift that will bless thee all thy life long."
Who acts: gift · What happens: ask, give, bless · To what, where: God, good wife, thee · 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 (gift), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 art | nsubj |
| 2 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 art | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 tsardom | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tsardom | det |
| 7 | tsardom | tsardom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 young | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 last | cc |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 riches | amod |
| 11 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 last | nsubj |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 art | conj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 while | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 while | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 while | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 while | amod |
| 17 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 last | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 ask | punct |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 art | parataxis |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ask | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 wife | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wife | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wife | amod |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ask | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 God | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 God | case |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 God | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 God | nsubj |
| 29 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 30 God | discourse |
| 30 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ask | vocative |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 give | mark |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ask | ccomp |
| 33 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 give | iobj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 wife | det |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 wife | amod |
| 36 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 tis | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 tis | punct |
| 39 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wife | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 gift | det |
| 41 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obl |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 bless | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 bless | aux |
| 44 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 gift | acl:relcl |
| 45 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 bless | obj |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 life | det |
| 47 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 48 life | nmod:poss |
| 48 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bless | obj |
| 49 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 bless | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 art | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | God | for a good wife; God vocative | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent god=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | a good wife and tis | thee | a gift obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient wife=Theme | |||
| 3 | bless | future | a gift | thee | long property | tree rules |
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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