Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 188
Then the Tsar guessed that it was a feather of the bird Zhar, and said to his soldiers, "Go and fetch that man hither!"
Who acts: Tsar, sill · What happens: guess, be, say, go, fetch · To what, where: feather, soldiers, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tsar, sill), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 guessed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 feather | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feather | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 feather | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 feather | det |
| 9 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bird | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feather | nmod |
| 13 | Zhar | Zhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bird | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 guessed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 soldiers | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Go | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Go | punct |
| 22 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fetch | cc |
| 24 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 Go | conj |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 man | det |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fetch | obj |
| 27 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 24 fetch | advmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 Go | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | the Tsar | then | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | sill | a feather | of the bird | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the Tsar not said here | brother's soldiers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to soldier=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | that man | hither property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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