Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 157
So they called the damsel, and Oh began to beg her to give it back to him, "for I may not live in this world if I bring not the ring," said he.
Who acts: man, Tsar · What happens: call, begin, beg, give back, not live, not bring · To what, where: damsel, daughter, Tsar, world, ring · 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, Tsar), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 damsel | det |
| 5 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 8 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 began | discourse |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 beg | mark |
| 11 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beg | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 give | mark |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 beg | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 give | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 give | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 give | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 live | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 live | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 live | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 live | advmod |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 beg | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 world | det |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 live | obl |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 bring | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 bring | nsubj |
| 31 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 live | advcl |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 bring | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ring | det |
| 34 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bring | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bring | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 said | nsubj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | man | the damsel | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent damsel=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | man not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | man not said here | daughter | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give back not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | damsel | Tsar | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | not live in a quote | may | man | this world | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 6 | not bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | man | the ring | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | Tsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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