Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 65
Why, if I were brought to the Serpent-Tsarevich, he would make me his bride at once."
Who acts: puss · What happens: bring, make · To what, where: I, Serpent Tsarevich, bride, me
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 (puss), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 brought | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 brought | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | aux:pass |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 make | csubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Tsarevich | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Tsarevich | det |
| 9 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tsarevich | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tsarevich | punct |
| 11 | Tsarevich | Tsarevich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bride | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 make | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | I | the Serpent Tsarevich | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to tsarevich=Destination | ||||
| 2 | make | would | puss | puss's bride | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary bride=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/65/