Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 134
But it was not really a gipsy, but Oh, who had taken the shape of a gipsy.
Who acts: bargain, gipsy · What happens: not be, take · To what, where: gipsy, shape
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 (bargain, gipsy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 gipsy | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gipsy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gipsy | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 gipsy | advmod |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 gipsy | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gipsy | det |
| 7 | gipsy | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 taken | cc |
| 10 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 14 taken | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Oh | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 taken | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 gipsy | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shape | det |
| 16 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gipsy | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 gipsy | det |
| 19 | gipsy | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shape | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gipsy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | bargain | a gipsy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | a gipsy | the shape of a gipsy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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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