Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 178
But when the overseer returned home he praised loudly to his master the wife of this Ivan. "
Who acts: overseer · What happens: return, praise · To what, where: wife
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 (overseer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 praised | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 returned | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 overseer | det |
| 4 | overseer | overseer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 praised | advcl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 praised | nsubj |
| 8 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 8 praised | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 master | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 master | nmod:poss |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 praised | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 praised | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Ivan | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 Ivan | det |
| 17 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 praised | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the overseer | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | praise | past | overseer | the wife of this Ivan | to overseer's master; loudly property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to master=be' |
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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