Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 127
But first the Empress caressed and kissed her husband into a good humour, and then she gave him another sleeping draught.
Who acts: Empress · What happens: caress, kiss, give, sleep · To what, where: husband, good humour, sleeping draught
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 (Empress), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 caressed | cc |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 caressed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Empress | det |
| 4 | Empress | Empress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 caressed | nsubj |
| 5 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kissed | cc |
| 7 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caressed | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kissed | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 humour | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 humour | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 humour | amod |
| 13 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kissed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 gave | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caressed | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 draught | det |
| 21 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 draught | amod |
| 22 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caress | past | the Empress | first property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | the Empress not said here | Empress's husband | a good humour | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | give | past | Empress | another sleeping draught | husband | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient draught=Theme | ||
| 4 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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