Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 16
And the Tsarivna said to her court lady, "Take this money, and give it to those poor cripples."
Who acts: Tsarivna · What happens: say, take, give · To what, where: court lady, money, poor cripples · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tsarivna), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarivna | det |
| 3 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lady | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lady | nmod:poss |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lady | compound |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 11 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 money | det |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Take | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Take | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 cripples | case |
| 19 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 cripples | det |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cripples | amod |
| 21 | cripples | cripple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 give | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Tsarivna | Tsarivna's court lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lady=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | this money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | money | that poor cripples | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to cripple=Recipient |
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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