Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 167
They threw off their plumage and plunged into the water, and then he saw that they were not wild doves, but three fair ladies.
Who acts: doves, brother · What happens: throw off, plunge, see, not be · To what, where: plumage, water, wild doves
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 (doves, brother), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 threw | compound:prt |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 5 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 plunged | cc |
| 7 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 threw | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plunged | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 doves | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 doves | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 doves | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 doves | advmod |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 doves | amod |
| 21 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saw | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ladies | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 ladies | cc |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 ladies | nummod |
| 25 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ladies | amod |
| 26 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 doves | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw off | past | doves = dove | doves's plumage | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plumage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plunge | participle | doves = dove not said here | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | brother | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not is a | past | doves = dove | wild doves but three fair ladies | 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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