Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 96
So the Accursed One could get nothing out of the hearth-broom.--Then he cried to the hatchet, "Hatchet, hatchet, where has the Tsar hidden his children?"--The hatchet replied, "The Tsar has always been a good master to me.
Who acts: Accursed One, broom, Tsar · What happens: accurs, get, cry, have, hide, reply · To what, where: nothing, hearth broom, hatchet, children, good master, broom · 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 (Accursed One, broom, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 One | det |
| 3 | Accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 One | amod |
| 4 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 get | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 broom | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 broom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 broom | det |
| 11 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 broom | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hearth | punct |
| 13 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nothing | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
| 16 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 cried | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cried | nsubj |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 hatchet | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hatchet | det |
| 21 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hatchet | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hatchet | punct |
| 24 | Hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hatchet | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hatchet | punct |
| 26 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hatchet | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 has | punct |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 has | advmod |
| 29 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 hatchet | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Tsar | det |
| 31 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 hidden | nsubj |
| 32 | hidden | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 has | advcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 children | nmod:poss |
| 34 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 hidden | obj |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 32 hidden | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 hidden | punct |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 hatchet | punct |
| 38 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hatchet | det |
| 39 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hatchet | conj |
| 40 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 hatchet | acl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 master | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 master | punct |
| 43 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Tsar | det |
| 44 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 master | nsubj |
| 45 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 master | aux |
| 46 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 50 master | advmod |
| 47 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 50 master | cop |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 master | det |
| 49 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 master | amod |
| 50 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obl |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 me | case |
| 52 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 master | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accurs | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | could | the Accursed One | nothing | the hearth broom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | broom | the hatchet and Hatchet and hatchet and the hatchet | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hatchet=Recipient | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | hide in a quote | past | the Tsar | TSAR's children | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 6 | reply speech: assert | participle | the hatchet not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | the Tsar | a good master | broom | always property | tree rules |
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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