Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 104
So _that_ is what thou art!" said he to the lackey, and immediately he bade them bind him and tie him to the tail of a horse so savage that no man could ride it, and then turn it loose into the endless steppe.
Who acts: _, Tsar, man · What happens: be, say, bade, bind, tie, ride · To what, where: lackey, _, Tsar, savage, endless steppe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, Tsar, man), 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 | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 2 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 what | mark |
| 4 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 what | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | cop |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 _ | appos |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 art | nsubj |
| 8 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 art | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 art | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 lackey | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lackey | det |
| 15 | lackey | lackey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bade | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bade | cc |
| 18 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 20 bade | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bade | nsubj |
| 20 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bade | obj |
| 22 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bade | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bind | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tie | cc |
| 25 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 bind | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 tie | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 tail | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tail | det |
| 29 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tie | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 horse | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 horse | det |
| 32 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tail | nmod |
| 33 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 34 savage | case |
| 34 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tie | obl |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 ride | mark |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 man | det |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ride | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 ride | aux |
| 39 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 tie | advcl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ride | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 turn | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 turn | cc |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 turn | advmod |
| 44 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 turn | obj |
| 46 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 44 turn | advmod |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 50 steppe | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 steppe | det |
| 49 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 steppe | amod |
| 50 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 turn | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | _ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | _ | the lackey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lackey=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bade in a quote | past | Tsar | _ | immediately property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bind in a quote | infinitive | Tsar not said here | Tsar | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | tie in a quote | infinitive | Tsar not said here | Tsar | to the tail of a horse; so savage | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to tail=Co-Patient | |||
| 6 | ride in a quote | could | no man | savage | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location | ||||
| 7 | turn in a quote | infinitive | _ not said here | savage | the endless steppe | then | loose property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into steppe=Trajectory |
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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