Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 4
One day this Tsar went to church; the priest was reading from Holy Scripture, and so he needs must listen.
Who acts: Tsar, priest · What happens: go, read, need, listen · To what, where: church, Holy Scripture
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 (Tsar, priest), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Tsar | det |
| 4 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 reading | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 priest | det |
| 10 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reading | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 reading | aux |
| 12 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Scripture | case |
| 14 | Holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Scripture | amod |
| 15 | Scripture | Scripture | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 reading | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 needs | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 needs | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 needs | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 needs | nsubj |
| 20 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 reading | conj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 listen | aux |
| 22 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 needs | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | this Tsar | church | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | read | past · progressive | the priest | Holy Scripture | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from scripture=Source | ||||
| 3 | need | present | priest | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | listen not said to happen | must | priest not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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