Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 63
Now there was an old woman there, who had twelve daughters, and eleven of these daughters they brought to the Serpent-Tsarevich, but not the twelfth. "
Who acts: old woman, damsels · What happens: have, bring, not be · To what, where: twelve daughters, daughters, Serpent Tsarevich, twelfth
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 (old woman, damsels), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 twelfth | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 woman | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woman | acl:relcl |
| 11 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 daughters | nummod |
| 12 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eleven | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eleven | cc |
| 15 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 daughters | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 daughters | case |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 daughters | det |
| 18 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eleven | nmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 daughters | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Tsarevich | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Tsarevich | det |
| 23 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Tsarevich | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Tsarevich | punct |
| 25 | Tsarevich | Tsarevich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 twelfth | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 twelfth | cc |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 twelfth | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 twelfth | det |
| 30 | twelfth | twelfth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 twelfth | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 twelfth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a old woman | twelve daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | damsels = damsel | this daughters not said here | the Serpent Tsarevich | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to tsarevich=Destination | |||
| 3 | not is a | past | the twelfth | 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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