Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 151
The Tsar kissed her, but the Tsarivna did not know which finger it would suit best, it was so lovely.
Who acts: Tsar, Tsarivna · What happens: kiss, not know, suit, be · To what, where: joy, finger, best
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 (Tsar, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tsarivna | det |
| 8 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kissed | parataxis |
| 12 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 13 finger | det |
| 13 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 suit | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 suit | aux |
| 16 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 finger | acl:relcl |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 suit | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lovely | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lovely | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lovely | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 lovely | advmod |
| 22 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 know | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the Tsar | joy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | the Tsarivna | which finger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | suit | would | Tsarivna | best | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Tsarivna | lovely property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/151/