Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 168
For a long time the Tsar wrinkled his brows at the thought of giving his daughter to a simple youth; but at last he gave them his blessing, and they crowned them with bridal wreaths, and all the world was bidden to the wedding-feast.
Who acts: Tsar, thought, brows · What happens: wrinkle, give, crown, bid, bless · To what, where: brows, thought, daughter, last, wings, world
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, thought, brows), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrinkled | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wrinkled | nsubj |
| 7 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brows | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wrinkled | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 thought | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thought | det |
| 12 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrinkled | obl |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 giving | mark |
| 14 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 thought | acl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 giving | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 youth | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 youth | det |
| 19 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 youth | amod |
| 20 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 giving | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 gave | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 gave | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | nsubj |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrinkled | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | obj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 29 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 crowned | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 crowned | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 crowned | nsubj |
| 33 | crowned | crown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrinkled | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 crowned | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 wreaths | case |
| 36 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 wreaths | amod |
| 37 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 crowned | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 bidden | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 bidden | cc |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 world | det:predet |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 world | det |
| 42 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bidden | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 bidden | aux:pass |
| 44 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wrinkled | conj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 feast | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 feast | det |
| 47 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 feast | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 wedding | punct |
| 49 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bidden | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrinkle | past | the Tsar | Tsar's brows | the thought | time | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brow=Patient | ||
| 2 | give | gerund | the thought not said here | Tsar's daughter | to a simple youth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to youth=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give | past | Tsar | brows = brow | last | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient blessing=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 4 | crown | past | brows = brow | wings = wing | with bridal wreaths | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with wreath=Theme | |||
| 5 | bid | past · passive | all world | to the wedding feast | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bless | Tsar | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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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