Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 50
Never from the day of his birth had the Tsar had such a tasty meal. "
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: not have, have · To what, where: tasty meal
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), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 had | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 birth | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 birth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tsar | det |
| 10 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | ccomp |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 meal | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 meal | det |
| 14 | tasty | tasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 meal | amod |
| 15 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past | day | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the Tsar | such tasty meal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=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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