Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 79

But while he had been away from home, there had been born to him a Tsarevko[8] and a Tsarivna; and they grew up not by the day, or even by the hour, but by the minute: never were known such fine children.

Who acts: TSAR, Tsarevko · What happens: be, bear, grow up, not know · To what, where: home, Tsarevko, TSAR, such fine children

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, Tsarevko), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 away	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 away	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 away	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 away	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 away	cop
6	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 away	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 born	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 born	expl
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 born	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 born	aux:pass
13	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 away	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 born	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Tsarevko	det
17	Tsarevko	Tsarevko	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 born	obl
18	[	[	PUNCT	_	19 8	punct
19	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 Tsarevko	appos
20	]	]	PUNCT	_	19 8	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Tsarivna	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Tsarivna	det
23	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Tsarevko	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 grew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grew	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 grew	nsubj
27	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 born	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 grew	compound:prt
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 day	advmod
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 day	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grew	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hour	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 hour	cc
35	even	even	ADV	_	38 hour	advmod
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 hour	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hour	det
38	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grew	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 known	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 known	cc
41	by	by	ADP	_	43 minute	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 minute	det
43	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 known	obl
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 minute	punct
45	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	47 known	advmod
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 known	aux:pass
47	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 grew	conj
48	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 children	amod
49	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 children	amod
50	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 known	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 away	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	TSAR			home		away property	tree rules
2	bear	past · perfect · passive		a Tsarevko and a Tsarivna	TSAR	there			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»
3	grow up	past	Tsarevko				day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not know	past · passive	Tsarevko not said here	such fine children			minute		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»

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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