Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 55
Once upon a time, in a certain kingdom, in a certain empire, there dwelt a certain Tsar who had never had a child.
Who acts: certain Tsar · What happens: dwell, not have · To what, where: certain Tsar, child
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kingdom | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kingdom | det |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kingdom | amod |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 empire | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 empire | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 empire | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 empire | amod |
| 14 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kingdom | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 dwelt | expl |
| 17 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Tsar | det |
| 19 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Tsar | amod |
| 20 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dwelt | obj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 had | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 had | advmod |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 Tsar | acl:relcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 child | det |
| 26 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a certain Tsar | there | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme tsar=Location | |||
| 2 | not have | past · perfect | a certain Tsar | a child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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