Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 148
At last the perch swam ashore, and there was a Tsarivna[5] whittling an ash twig.
Who acts: last perch, Tsarivna · What happens: swim, be, whittle · To what, where: ash twig
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 (last perch, Tsarivna), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 perch | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 perch | det |
| 4 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swam | nsubj |
| 5 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 5 swam | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 was | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swam | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Tsarivna | det |
| 12 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 5 | punct |
| 14 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Tsarivna | appos |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 5 | punct |
| 16 | whittling | whittle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 Tsarivna | acl |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 twig | det |
| 18 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 twig | compound |
| 19 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 whittling | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | the last perch | ashore property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a Tsarivna | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | whittle | gerund | a Tsarivna not said here | a ash twig | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=Product |
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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