Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 92
Now the parson was not a little astonished when he saw his cattle. "
Who acts: parson · What happens: not be, see · To what, where: cattle
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 (parson), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 astonished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parson | det |
| 3 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 astonished | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 astonished | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 astonished | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 astonished | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 astonished | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 astonished | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the parson | now | a little obl:unmarked; astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | parson | parson's cattle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cattle=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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