Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 87

Then the custodians came round to examine the prisoners, and one said one thing and one said another, till at last it came to the turn of the Tsar.--"Who art thou, old man?" they asked.

Who acts: custodians, one, dungeon, old man · What happens: come round, examine, say, come, ask · To what, where: prisoners, one thing, another, turn · 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 (custodians, one, dungeon, old 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 custodians	det
3	custodians	custodian	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 examine	mark
7	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prisoners	det
9	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 examine	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 thing	nummod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 said	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 last	punct
21	till	till	ADP	_	23 last	case
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 last	acl:relcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 turn	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 turn	det
28	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Tsar	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Tsar	det
31	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 turn	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 art	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 art	punct
35	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 art	nsubj
36	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
37	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 art	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 man	punct
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 man	amod
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 asked	nsubj
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	40 man	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 man	punct
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 asked	nsubj
44	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come round	past	the custodians			then	round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	examine	to-infinitive	the custodians not said here	the prisoners				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	one	one thing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	one	another				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic
5	come	past	dungeon		the turn of the Tsar			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to turn=Initial_Location
6	ask speech: ask	past	old man					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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