Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 64
They took him to be a runaway soldier, or some other poor man, but when he had eaten his fill and clothed himself, he said to them, "I am your Tsar!"
Who acts: feet, man · What happens: take, be, eat, clothe, say · To what, where: man, runaway soldier, fill, feet, Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (feet, man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 soldier | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 soldier | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 soldier | det |
| 7 | runaway | runaway | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 soldier | amod |
| 8 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 man | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 man | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soldier | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eaten | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 eaten | cc |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 eaten | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 eaten | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 eaten | aux |
| 20 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 took | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fill | nmod:poss |
| 22 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eaten | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 clothed | cc |
| 24 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 eaten | conj |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 clothed | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 said | nsubj |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 said | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Tsar | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Tsar | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 Tsar | nsubj |
| 34 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 Tsar | cop |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 Tsar | nmod:poss |
| 36 | Tsar | tsar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | ccomp |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 Tsar | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Tsar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | feet = foot | man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | feet = foot not said here | a runaway soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | past · perfect | man | man's fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient | ||||
| 4 | clothe | past | man not said here | man | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: express | past | man | feet = foot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | man | your Tsar | 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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