Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 164
Yet there was one single little grain of millet which rolled right beneath the feet of the Tsarivna, and that he did not see.
Who acts: one single little grain, Tsar · What happens: be, roll, not see · To what, where: feet
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 (one single little grain, 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 grain | nummod |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grain | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grain | amod |
| 7 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 millet | case |
| 9 | millet | millet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grain | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 rolled | nsubj |
| 11 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grain | parataxis |
| 12 | right | right | ADV | _ | 11 rolled | advmod |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 feet | det |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rolled | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Tsarivna | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Tsarivna | det |
| 18 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 feet | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 see | advmod |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 rolled | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | one single little grain of millet | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll | past | one single little grain of millet | the feet of the Tsarivna | right property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath foot=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | not see | past · do-support | Tsar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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