Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 115
So the bride did as the Sun bade her, and went to that distant empire, and the Empress of that empire, whom her husband had married, came to see what she was selling, and said to her, "What dost thou want for thy silver apple?"
Who acts: bride, Sun, Empress, thou · What happens: do, bade, go, marry, come, see · To what, where: bride, distant empire, husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, Sun, Empress, thou), 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 | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bride | det |
| 3 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 bade | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bade | nsubj |
| 8 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 empire | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 empire | det |
| 15 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 empire | amod |
| 16 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 came | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Empress | det |
| 20 | Empress | Empress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 came | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 empire | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 empire | det |
| 23 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Empress | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 married | punct |
| 25 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 married | obl |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 husband | nmod:poss |
| 27 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 married | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 married | aux |
| 29 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 empire | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Empress | punct |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 see | mark |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 came | advcl |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 selling | obj |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 selling | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 selling | aux |
| 37 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 see | ccomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 said | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 said | cc |
| 40 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 her | case |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 said | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 want | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 want | punct |
| 45 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 48 want | obj |
| 46 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 want | aux |
| 47 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 48 want | nsubj |
| 48 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 said | ccomp |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 52 apple | case |
| 50 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 52 apple | nmod:poss |
| 51 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 apple | amod |
| 52 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 want | obl |
| 53 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 48 want | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the bride | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bade | past | the Sun | bride | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the bride not said here | that distant empire | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to empire=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | marry | past · perfect · passive | bride's husband | that empire obl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the Empress of that empire | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | the Empress of that empire not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | sell | past · progressive | Empress | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 8 | say speech: ask | past | bride | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | want in a quote | present · do-support | thou | for thy silver apple | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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