Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 68
But Ivan stood up and gazed at the sky and said, "Look now! if St Peter hath not already burnt my incense and made of it that large white cloud that is sailing above my head!"
Who acts: Ivan, that, large white cloud · What happens: stand up, gaze, say, look, not burnt, make · To what, where: St Peter, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ivan, that, large white cloud), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 stood | cc |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stood | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gazed | cc |
| 6 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gazed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Look | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Look | punct |
| 14 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 Look | advmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Look | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 burnt | mark |
| 18 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Peter | compound |
| 19 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 burnt | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 burnt | advmod |
| 22 | already | already | ADV | _ | 23 burnt | advmod |
| 23 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Look | advcl |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 incense | nmod:poss |
| 25 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burnt | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 burnt | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | obl |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 cloud | nsubj |
| 31 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cloud | amod |
| 32 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cloud | amod |
| 33 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burnt | parataxis |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 sailing | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sailing | aux |
| 36 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 cloud | acl:relcl |
| 37 | above | above | ADP | _ | 39 head | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 head | nmod:poss |
| 39 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sailing | obl |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 cloud | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | Ivan | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gaze | participle | Ivan not said here | at the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Ivan not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | infinitive | now | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not burnt a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect · passive | St Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make in a quote | participle | of incense | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 7 | cloud in a quote | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | sail in a quote | present · progressive | large white cloud | my head | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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