Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 44
And they answered, "The Tsar's coachman has slain the Dragon with six heads and saved the Princess, and now he is to be married to her."--"Good Lord!" cried he, "and I never saw this Dragon!
Who acts: Tsar, Good Lord · What happens: answer, slay, save, marry, cry, not see · To what, where: coachman, Princess, brother, Dragon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, Good Lord), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slain | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 slain | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tsar | det |
| 7 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 coachman | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Tsar | case |
| 9 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 slain | aux |
| 11 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Dragon | det |
| 13 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 slain | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 heads | case |
| 15 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 heads | nummod |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 slain | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saved | cc |
| 18 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 slain | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 saved | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 married | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 married | cc |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 married | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 married | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 married | aux:pass |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 married | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 married | aux:pass |
| 28 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 married | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 cried | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Lord | punct |
| 35 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Lord | amod |
| 36 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 cried | nsubj |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 Lord | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Lord | punct |
| 39 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 cried | nsubj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 he | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 cried | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 saw | cc |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 saw | nsubj |
| 45 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 46 saw | advmod |
| 46 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 cried | conj |
| 47 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 Dragon | det |
| 48 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 saw | obj |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Tsar | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | slay in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Tsar's coachman | with six heads | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save in a quote | past | the Princess | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | present · passive | brother | Princess | now | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to she=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | Good Lord | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not see in a quote | past | Good Lord = lord | this Dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus |
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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