Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 94
Why should we keep this fool for ever," said they, "and waste the Tsar's bread upon him?"
Who acts: we, things · What happens: keep, say, waste · To what, where: fool, bread · 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 (we, things), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 keep | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fool | det |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 keep | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | conj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 waste | cc |
| 16 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 keep | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Tsar | det |
| 18 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 bread | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Tsar | case |
| 20 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waste | obj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 waste | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | should | we | this fool | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | things = thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | waste | infinitive | we not said here | the Tsar's bread | upon man | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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