Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 36
It was the angel who had taken the form of a stag.
Who acts: bank, angel · What happens: be, take, form · To what, where: angel, form, stag
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 (bank, angel), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 angel | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angel | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 angel | det |
| 4 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 taken | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 angel | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 form | det |
| 9 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stag | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stag | det |
| 12 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 form | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 angel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bank | the angel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | the angel | the form of a stag | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 3 | form | a stag | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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