Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 24

Now the Tsar had heard them speaking, and the words of the cripples moved him strangely.

Who acts: Tsar, ropes, words · What happens: hear, speak, move, word · To what, where: ropes, Tsar, 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 (Tsar, ropes, words), 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	5 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsar	det
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	obj
7	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 heard	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 moved	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 moved	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 moved	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cripples	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cripples	det
14	cripples	cripple	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 words	nmod
15	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 moved	obj
17	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	15 moved	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	the Tsar	ropes = rope	now		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	gerund	ropes = rope not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	move	past	the words of the cripples	Tsar		strangely property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme he=Result
4	word			the cripples			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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