Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 57

For though he was a Tsar, he had a mean and churlish soul, and used always to do his own marketing, and so now, too, he bought a little salt fish and went home with it.

Who acts: TSAR · What happens: be, have, use, do, buy, go · To what, where: mean soul, own marketing, little salt fish

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), 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	For	for	ADP	_	6 Tsar	case
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 Tsar	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Tsar	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Tsar	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Tsar	det
6	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Tsar	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 soul	det
11	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 soul	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 churlish	cc
13	churlish	churlish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mean	conj
14	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 used	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 used	cc
17	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	conj
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 used	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 used	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 marketing	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 marketing	amod
23	marketing	marketing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 do	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bought	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bought	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 now	advmod
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 bought	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 too	punct
29	too	too	ADV	_	27 now	fixed
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bought	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bought	nsubj
32	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	parataxis
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fish	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fish	amod
35	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fish	compound
36	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bought	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 went	cc
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bought	conj
39	home	home	ADV	_	38 went	advmod
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 went	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	TSAR			for a Tsar	tree rules
2	have	past	TSAR	a mean soul			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient
3	use	past	TSAR not said here			always property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	to-infinitive	TSAR not said here	TSAR's own marketing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marketing=Eventuality
5	buy	past	TSAR	a little salt fish	now		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
6	go	past	TSAR not said here			with fish; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary
7	market		TSAR				nom marketing «act intransitive»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/57/