Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 189
So Ivan returned without the overseer, and the nobleman said to him, "Where's my overseer?"--"I left him in hell," said Ivan, "and they said there that they were waiting for you, sir, too."
Who acts: Ivan, nobleman · What happens: return, say, be, leave, wait · To what, where: overseer, hell, sir · 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 (Ivan, nobleman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | advcl |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 overseer | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 overseer | det |
| 6 | overseer | overseer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nobleman | det |
| 10 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 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 | _ | 19 overseer | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 overseer | punct |
| 16 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 overseer | advmod |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 overseer | cop |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 overseer | nmod:poss |
| 19 | overseer | overseer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 overseer | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 overseer | punct |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 left | nsubj |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 left | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hell | case |
| 28 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 said | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Ivan | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Ivan | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 said | cc |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 said | nsubj |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | conj |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 said | advmod |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 waiting | mark |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 waiting | nsubj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 waiting | aux |
| 42 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 said | advcl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 you | case |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 waiting | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sir | punct |
| 46 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 waiting | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 too | punct |
| 48 | too | too | ADV | _ | 42 waiting | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Ivan | without the overseer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the nobleman | overseer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | my overseer | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | past | the nobleman = nobleman | overseer | hell | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in hell=Location | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | IVAN | there | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | wait in a quote | past · progressive | IVAN | sir | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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