Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 73
They told him, but it was a long, long journey that would take the whole day.
Who acts: feet, capital, long long journey · What happens: tell, be, take · To what, where: man, long long journey · 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, capital, long long journey), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | 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 told | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 journey | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 journey | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 journey | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 journey | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 journey | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 journey | amod |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 journey | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | feet = foot | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | capital | a long long journey | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | would | a long long journey | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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