Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 27

Off after it went the Tsar; every moment the stag seemed to be faltering, and yet the Tsar could never quite come up with it.

Who acts: forest, moment, Tsar · What happens: go, seem, falter, not come up · To what, where: Tsar

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 (forest, moment, Tsar), 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	Off	off	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tsar	det
6	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	nsubj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stag	det
11	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 faltering	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 faltering	aux
15	faltering	falter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 seemed	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 come	cc
18	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Tsar	det
20	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 come	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 come	advmod
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 faltering	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 come	compound:prt
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	forest	the Tsar		off property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tsar=Theme
2	seem	past	every moment				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	falter	to-infinitive · progressive	every moment not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not come up	could	the Tsar		yet	with forest	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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