Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 155
The Tsar went out to him and said, "What dost thou want, old man?"--"I was sailing on the sea in my ship," said Oh, "and carrying to the Tsar of my own land a precious garnet ring, and this ring I dropped into the water.
Who acts: Tsar, thou, I, ring · What happens: go out, say, do, want, sail, carry · To what, where: Tsarevna, sea, Tsar, water · 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 (Tsar, thou, I, ring), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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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 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dost | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 dost | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 dost | obj |
| 12 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dost | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 sailing | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 sailing | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 sailing | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sailing | aux |
| 24 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 said | ccomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sailing | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 ship | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 ship | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sailing | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sailing | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 sailing | punct |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 34 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 49 ring | discourse |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Oh | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Oh | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 ring | cc |
| 38 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 49 ring | csubj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 Tsar | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Tsar | det |
| 41 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 carrying | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 land | case |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 land | nmod:poss |
| 44 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 land | amod |
| 45 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Tsar | nmod |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 ring | det |
| 47 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 ring | amod |
| 48 | garnet | garnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 ring | compound |
| 49 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 said | ccomp |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 dropped | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 dropped | cc |
| 52 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 53 ring | det |
| 53 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 dropped | nsubj |
| 54 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 55 dropped | nsubj |
| 55 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 ring | advcl |
| 56 | into | into | ADP | _ | 58 water | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 water | det |
| 58 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 dropped | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the Tsar | Tsarevna | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Tsar not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | thou | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | sail in a quote | past · progressive | I | the sea | in my ship | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | carry in a quote | gerund | the Tsar of my own land | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to tsar=Destination | |||||
| 8 | drop in a quote | past | this ring | the water | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into water=Trajectory |
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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