Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 75
The old Tsar sent for him again and again, but his son would never go.
Who acts: old Tsar, son · What happens: send, not go
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 Tsar, son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tsar | amod |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 again | cc |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 again | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 go | advmod |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the old Tsar | again | for Hail | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not go | would | Hail's son | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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