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Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 50

When the Tsar heard this, he immediately gave the Princess his daughter to the King's son, and they asked him what death the wicked coachman should die.

Who acts: Tsar, King, sons, death · What happens: hear, give, ask, die · To what, where: this, Princess, daughter, King · 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, King, sons, death), 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

advmoddetnsubjadvclobjpunctnsubjadvmoddetobjnmod:possiobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccnsubjparataxisiobjobjnsubjdetamodnsubjauxccomppunctrootWhenADVtheDETTsarPROPNheardVERBthisPRON,PUNCThePRONimmediatelyADVgaveVERBtheDETPrincessPROPNhisPRONdaughterNOUNtoADPtheDETKingPROPN'sPARTsonNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONaskedVERBhimPRONwhatPRONdeathNOUNtheDETwickedADJcoachmanNOUNshouldAUXdieVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 heardadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Tsardet
3TsarTsarPROPNNumber=Sing4 heardnsubj
4heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 gaveadvcl
5thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 heardobj
6,,PUNCT_4 heardpunct
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 gavensubj
8immediatelyimmediatelyADV_9 gaveadvmod
9gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Princessdet
11PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing9 gaveobj
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 daughternmod:poss
13daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing9 gaveiobj
14totoADP_18 soncase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 Kingdet
16KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing18 sonnmod:poss
17's'sPART_16 Kingcase
18sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing9 gaveobl
19,,PUNCT_22 askedpunct
20andandCCONJ_22 askedcc
21theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 askednsubj
22askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 gaveparataxis
23himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 askediobj
24whatwhatPRONPronType=Int30 dieobj
25deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing30 diensubj
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 coachmandet
27wickedwickedADJDegree=Pos28 coachmanamod
28coachmancoachmanNOUNNumber=Sing30 diensubj
29shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin30 dieaux
30diedieVERBVerbForm=Inf22 askedccomp
31..PUNCT_9 gavepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpastthe Tsarthisvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2givepastKingthe PrincessKing's daughterto the King's son; immediately propertyvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient princess=Theme
3ask speech: askpastsons = sonKingvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4dieshoulddeathtree 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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