Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 60
The Tsar sprang back in terror, and cried, "Let me go!"
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: spring back, cry, let, go · To what, where: terror, Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 terror | case |
| 6 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 12 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Let | xcomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring back | past | the Tsar | terror | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Tsar not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | the Tsar = tsar | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | the Tsar = tsar not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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