Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 48
Now the Tsarevko awoke at midnight, and saw in the right-hand corner a horse so gorgeously caparisoned that he could not resist rising at once and mounting it; and in the threshold corner there was a self-slicing sword, and in the third corner stood the dog _Protius_[9], and in the stove corner stood the dog _Nedviga_[9].
Who acts: Tsarevko, quarter · What happens: awake, see, caparison, not resist, rise, mount · To what, where: hand corner, corner, slicing sword, threshold corner, dog, third corner
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarevko, quarter), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarevko | det |
| 3 | Tsarevko | Tsarevko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | nsubj |
| 4 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 midnight | case |
| 6 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awoke | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 corner | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 corner | det |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hand | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 right | punct |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 corner | compound |
| 15 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 corner | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 caparisoned | advmod |
| 19 | gorgeously | gorgeously | ADV | _ | 20 caparisoned | advmod |
| 20 | caparisoned | caparison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 saw | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 resist | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 resist | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 resist | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 resist | advmod |
| 25 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 caparisoned | advcl |
| 26 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 resist | xcomp |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 once | case |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 rising | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 mounting | cc |
| 30 | mounting | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 rising | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 mounting | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 sword | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 sword | cc |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 corner | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 corner | det |
| 36 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 corner | compound |
| 37 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sword | obl |
| 38 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 39 was | expl |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 sword | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 sword | det |
| 41 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 slicing | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 self | punct |
| 43 | slicing | slice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 sword | amod |
| 44 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 stood | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 stood | cc |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 corner | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 corner | det |
| 49 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 50 corner | amod |
| 50 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 stood | obl |
| 51 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awoke | conj |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 dog | det |
| 53 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 stood | obj |
| 54 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 55 Protius | punct |
| 55 | Protius | Protius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 stood | obl |
| 56 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 51 stood | punct |
| 57 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 58 9 | punct |
| 58 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 51 stood | obl |
| 59 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 58 9 | punct |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 stood | punct |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 66 stood | cc |
| 62 | in | in | ADP | _ | 65 corner | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 corner | det |
| 64 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 corner | compound |
| 65 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 stood | obl |
| 66 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awoke | conj |
| 67 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 dog | det |
| 68 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 stood | obj |
| 69 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 70 Nedviga | punct |
| 70 | Nedviga | Nedviga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 66 stood | obl |
| 71 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 66 stood | punct |
| 72 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 73 9 | punct |
| 73 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 66 stood | obl |
| 74 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 73 9 | punct |
| 75 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the Tsarevko | now; midnight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Tsarevko not said here | the hand corner and a horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | caparison | participle | the Tsarevko not said here | gorgeously property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not resist | could | quarter | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | rise | gerund | quarter not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location | |||||
| 6 | mount | gerund | quarter not said here | corner | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 7 | slice | gerund | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | is a | past | a slicing sword | the threshold corner | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | stand | past | the Tsarevko not said here | the dog | the third corner | Protius obl; 9 obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme in corner=Destination | ||
| 10 | stand | past | the Tsarevko not said here | the dog | the stove corner | Nedviga obl; 9 obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme in corner=Destination |
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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