Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 197
The people waited and waited and wondered and wondered that he was so long about it, and at last they drained off the milk and found the Tsar at the bottom of the vat boiled quite red.
Who acts: people, man, bottom · What happens: wait, wonder, be, drain, find, boil · To what, where: last, Tsar, bottom
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 (people, man, bottom), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 waited | cc |
| 5 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wondered | cc |
| 7 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wondered | cc |
| 9 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 it | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 it | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 it | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 it | advmod |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wondered | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drained | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drained | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 drained | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drained | nsubj |
| 22 | drained | drain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 milk | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 milk | det |
| 25 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drained | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 found | cc |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Tsar | det |
| 29 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 found | obj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 bottom | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bottom | det |
| 32 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 found | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 vat | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 vat | det |
| 35 | vat | vat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 boiled | obl |
| 36 | boiled | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 bottom | acl:relcl |
| 37 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 38 red | advmod |
| 38 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 boiled | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the people | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wait | past | the people not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | the people not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | the people not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | man | about ring; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | drain | past | people | last | off the milk | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme off milk=Source | |||
| 7 | find | past | the people not said here | the Tsar | the bottom | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme at bottom=Asset | |||
| 8 | boil | past | the bottom not said here | of the vat; red property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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