Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 89
(For there were no lordly mansions in those days, and the Tsars dwelt in peasants' huts.)
Who acts: Tsars · What happens: be, dwell · To what, where: lordly mansions, huts
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 (Tsars), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 mansions | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 were | mark |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mansions | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 mansions | det |
| 6 | lordly | lordly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mansions | amod |
| 7 | mansions | mansion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 days | det |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mansions | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dwelt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dwelt | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tsars | det |
| 14 | Tsars | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 dwelt | nsubj |
| 15 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mansions | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 huts | case |
| 17 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 huts | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 peasants | case |
| 19 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dwelt | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mansions | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 mansions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | no lordly mansions | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | the Tsars | peasants's huts | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
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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