Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 85
Then the father took the dove, and immediately it changed into a handsome young man, and a handsomer was not to be found in the wide world.
Who acts: father, breast · What happens: take, change, not find · To what, where: dove, handsomer, wide 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 (father, breast), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dove | det |
| 6 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 changed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 changed | cc |
| 9 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 changed | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 14 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 handsomer | det |
| 20 | handsomer | handsomer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 found | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 found | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 28 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 world | amod |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the father | the dove | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme | |||
| 2 | change | past | breast | into a handsome young man result; immediately property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into man=Result | ||||
| 3 | not find | past · passive | a handsomer | the wide world | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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