Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 28
Hot with excitement, the Tsar spurred his horse on yet faster. "
Who acts: Hot excitement · What happens: spur · To what, where: horse
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 (Hot excitement), 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 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 excitement | amod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 excitement | case |
| 3 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spurred | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 excitement | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spurred | nsubj |
| 7 | spurred | spur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spurred | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 faster | case |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 faster | advmod |
| 12 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 spurred | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spurred | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 spurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spur | past | Hot excitement | excitement's horse | fast property | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
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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