Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 56
One day this Tsar went to the bazaar (such a bazaar as we have at Kherson) to buy food for his needs.
Who acts: Tsar, we · What happens: go, have, buy, need · To what, where: Kherson, food
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 (Tsar, we), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Tsar | det |
| 4 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bazaar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bazaar | det |
| 8 | bazaar | bazaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 bazaar | punct |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 bazaar | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bazaar | det |
| 12 | bazaar | bazaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bazaar | appos |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bazaar | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Kherson | case |
| 17 | Kherson | Kherson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obl |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 bazaar | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 buy | mark |
| 20 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buy | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 needs | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 needs | nmod:poss |
| 24 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 buy | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | this Tsar | day | to the bazaar | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | present | we | Kherson | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | this Tsar not said here | food | for TSAR's needs | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for need=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | need | TSAR | nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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