Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 101

And the serpent was the Tsar of that tsardom.

Who acts: serpent · What happens: be · To what, where: Tsar

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 Tsar	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tsar	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Tsar	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tsar	det
6	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tsardom	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 tsardom	det
9	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tsar	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Tsar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the serpent	the Tsar				of that tsardom	tree rules

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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