Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 82
For they did not know that he was now no longer a serpent, but a simple Tsarevich.
Who acts: skins, husband · What happens: not know, be · To what, where: simple Tsarevich, serpent · 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 (skins, husband), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 serpent | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 serpent | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 serpent | cop |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 serpent | advmod |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 longer | advmod |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 serpent | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 serpent | det |
| 13 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tsarevich | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 Tsarevich | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Tsarevich | det |
| 17 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Tsarevich | amod |
| 18 | Tsarevich | Tsarevich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | skins = skin | a simple Tsarevich | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | husband | a serpent | now | long property | 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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