Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 14
On they went till they came to a town where a Tsar lived.
Who acts: miles, Tsar · What happens: go, come, live · To what, where: town
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, Tsar), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Tsar | det |
| 12 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 town | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | miles = mile | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | miles = mile | a town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | live | past | a Tsar | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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