Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 67
So they embraced and kissed each other, and then the prince said, "'Tis high time I drove these swine home, for the princess doesn't like being kept waiting for her tea."
Who acts: legs, prince, princess · What happens: embrace, kiss, say, drive, not like, keep · To what, where: each, swine · 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 (legs, prince, princess), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 embraced | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 embraced | nsubj |
| 3 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kissed | cc |
| 5 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embraced | conj |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 kissed | obj |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 said | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embraced | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 kept | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 kept | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 17 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 time | compound |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 drove | nsubj |
| 21 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 time | acl:relcl |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 swine | det |
| 23 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drove | obj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 drove | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 like | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 like | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 princess | det |
| 28 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 like | nsubj |
| 29 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 like | aux |
| 30 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 like | advmod |
| 31 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 kept | aux:pass |
| 33 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 34 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 kept | xcomp |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 tea | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 tea | nmod:poss |
| 37 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 waiting | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embraced | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | legs = leg | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kiss | past | legs = leg not said here | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | drive in a quote | past | the prince = prince | this swine | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swine=Theme | |||
| 5 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | the princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | keep in a quote | gerund · passive | time | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | wait in a quote | gerund | for princess's tea | vn exist-47.1 «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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