Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 190
When the nobleman heard this he hanged himself, but Ivan lived happily with his wife.
Who acts: nobleman, overseer, Ivan · What happens: hear, hange, live · To what, where: this, overseer
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 (nobleman, overseer, Ivan), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nobleman | det |
| 3 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hanged | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hanged | nsubj |
| 7 | hanged | hange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 hanged | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 lived | cc |
| 11 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hanged | conj |
| 13 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 12 lived | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hanged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the nobleman | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hange | past | overseer | overseer | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | Ivan | with overseer's wife; happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wife=Location |
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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