Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 153
About the same time they told the Tsar that a certain merchant had come to the palace.
Who acts: man, certain merchant · What happens: tell, come · To what, where: Tsar, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, certain merchant), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | nsubj |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tsar | det |
| 8 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 merchant | det |
| 11 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 merchant | amod |
| 12 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 told | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | man | the Tsar | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tsar=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | a certain merchant | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location |
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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