Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 78
The Tsar gladly promised this, for he could think of naught else that he had, and then the Accursed One let him go.
Who acts: Tsar, One · What happens: promise, think, have, accurs, let, go · To what, where: this, TSAR
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, One), 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 | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 promised | advmod |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 promised | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 think | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | aux |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 naught | case |
| 12 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 10 think | obl |
| 13 | else | else | ADV | _ | 12 naught | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Accursed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Accursed | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 Accursed | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Accursed | det |
| 21 | Accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 promised | conj |
| 22 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 let | nsubj |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Accursed | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the Tsar | this | gladly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | could | TSAR | of naught | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | TSAR | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | accurs | participle | the Tsar not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | One | TSAR | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | 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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