Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 1
The olden times were not like the times _we_ live in.
Who acts: we · What happens: not like, live in
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 times | det |
| 2 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 like | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 like | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 times | det |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 like | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 live | nsubj |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 live | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | live in | present | we | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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