Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 44
It appears to us 'twas a right good school you sent him to.
Who acts: It, you · What happens: appear, send · To what, where: twas, us, father
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 appears | nsubj |
| 2 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 appears | obl |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 us | punct |
| 6 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 appears | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 school | det |
| 8 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 school | compound |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 school | amod |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 twas | appos |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 school | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sent | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | It | twas | us | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twa=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | past | you | father | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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