Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 59
And he believed her and gave it to her, for she was dear to him, and he thought her good and true.
Who acts: serpent, sister · What happens: believe, give, be, think · To what, where: sister, handkerchief, serpent
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 (serpent, sister), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 believed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 believed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gave | cc |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 believed | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dear | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 dear | case |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dear | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dear | cop |
| 14 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gave | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dear | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thought | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 believed | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | obj |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thought | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 true | cc |
| 24 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 good | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | serpent | sister | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | past | serpent not said here | handkerchief | sister | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | past | sister | serpent | dear property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | serpent | sister | good property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=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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