Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 41
And Oh had water-nixies for serving-maids, and they were all as green as rue. "
Who acts: nixies · What happens: have, be · To what, where: water nixies
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 (nixies), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 had | discourse |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nixies | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
| 6 | nixies | nixy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 maids | case |
| 8 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 maids | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 serving | punct |
| 10 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 green | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 green | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 green | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 green | cop |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 green | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 green | advmod |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 rue | case |
| 19 | rue | rue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 green | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | water nixies | for serving maids | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nixy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | nixies = nixy | as rue; all, green property | tree rules |
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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