Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 5
Now there were certain words there which pleased him not. "
Who acts: certain words · What happens: not be
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 (certain words), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 were | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pleased | cop |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pleased | nsubj |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 pleased | expl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 pleased | nsubj |
| 8 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pleased | obl |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 pleased | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pleased | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | certain words | there | priest obl; pleased property | tree rules |
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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