Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 1

There was once upon a time a lark who was the Tsar among the birds, and he took unto himself as his Tsaritsa a little shrew-mouse.

Who acts: lark, he · What happens: be, take · To what, where: Tsar, little shrew mouse

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lark, he), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lark	det
8	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Tsar	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 Tsar	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Tsar	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tsar	det
12	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 time	nmod
13	among	among	ADP	_	15 birds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 birds	det
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Tsar	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 took	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
20	unto	unto	ADP	_	21 himself	case
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 took	obl
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 Tsaritsa	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 Tsaritsa	nmod:poss
24	Tsaritsa	Tsaritsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 mouse	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mouse	amod
27	shrew	shrew	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mouse	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 shrew	punct
29	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	a lark	the Tsar			among the birds	tree rules
3	take	past	he	a little shrew mouse			unto himself = he; as his Tsaritsa	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme as tsaritsa=Attribute

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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