Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 42

Now the prince wanted to test the wits of his two sons; he wanted to see which of the twain was fit for ruling his empire, and which should stand aside and make way for better men.

Who acts: prince · What happens: want, test, see, be, rule, stand · To what, where: wits, empire, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (prince), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wanted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 test	mark
6	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wits	det
8	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 test	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 sons	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sons	nmod:poss
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sons	nummod
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wits	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 wanted	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wanted	nsubj
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wanted	xcomp
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 fit	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 twain	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 twain	det
21	twain	twain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fit	obl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fit	cop
23	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 see	ccomp
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 ruling	mark
25	ruling	rule	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 fit	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 empire	nmod:poss
27	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ruling	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stand	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stand	cc
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 stand	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 stand	aux
32	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wanted	parataxis
33	aside	aside	ADV	_	32 stand	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 make	cc
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 stand	conj
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 make	obj
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 men	case
38	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 men	amod
39	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 make	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the prince		now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	test not said to happen	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	the wits of Prince's two sons			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Theme
3	want	past	Prince				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past				of the twain; fit property	tree rules
6	rule	gerund		Prince's empire			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Theme
7	stand	should				aside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	make	infinitive		way		for better men	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent way=Product for man=Beneficiary

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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