Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 79
Early in the morning they all arose, and the prince went to the serpent's house to greet them all, and there he saw twenty of the serpent's daughters, but where was the twenty-first?
Who acts: guests, prince · What happens: arise, go, greet, see, be · To what, where: house, guests, twenty
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 arose | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 arose | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 they | det |
| 7 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arose | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 serpent | det |
| 15 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 serpent | case |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 greet | mark |
| 19 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 greet | obj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saw | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 saw | cc |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 saw | expl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 saw | nsubj |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arose | conj |
| 27 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 saw | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 daughters | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 serpent | det |
| 30 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 serpent | case |
| 32 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 twenty | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 where | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 where | cc |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 arose | conj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 where | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 twenty | det |
| 38 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 where | conj |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 twenty | punct |
| 40 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 twenty | advmod |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | guests = guest | morning | early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | the prince | the serpent's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | guests = guest | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | prince | twenty of the serpent's daughters | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twenty=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is | past | guests = guest not said here | where property | 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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