Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 11

When the little Tsar saw it, he said, "Oh, my dear brother-in-law!"

Who acts: little Tsar, Tsar · What happens: see, say · To what, where: tree · 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 (little Tsar, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tsar	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Tsar	amod
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 law	punct
12	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	20 law	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Oh	punct
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brother	nmod:poss
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brother	amod
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 law	nsubj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 law	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 law	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 in	punct
20	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 law	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 law	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the little Tsar	tree					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Tsar						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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