Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 8
At this the Tsar lark was wrath, and collected all the birds of the air to make war upon the mouse Tsaritsa; but the Tsaritsa called together all the beasts to defend her, and so the war began.
Who acts: lark wrath, war · What happens: be, collect, make, call together, defend, begin · To what, where: lark wrath, birds, war, Tsaritsa
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 wrath, war), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 lark | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 lark | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lark | det |
| 4 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lark | compound |
| 5 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrath | compound |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrath | cop |
| 7 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 collected | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 collected | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 collected | cc |
| 10 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 birds | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 birds | det |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 collected | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 birds | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 collected | advcl |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 mouse | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mouse | det |
| 22 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obl |
| 23 | Tsaritsa | Tsaritsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 mouse | appos |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 called | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 called | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Tsaritsa | det |
| 27 | Tsaritsa | Tsaritsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 called | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 collected | parataxis |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 28 called | advmod |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 beasts | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 beasts | det |
| 32 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 called | xcomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 defend | mark |
| 34 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 called | advcl |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 defend | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 began | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 began | cc |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 began | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 war | det |
| 40 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 began | nsubj |
| 41 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 collected | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lark wrath | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | collect | past | lark wrath | all birds of the air | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | lark wrath not said here | war | upon the mouse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product | |||
| 4 | call together speech: assert | participle · passive | the Tsaritsa | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | defend | to-infinitive | Tsaritsa | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | |||||
| 6 | begin | past | the war | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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