Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 23
Then he went into the courtyard again, and the starling met him and said, "Not so fast, not so fast, little Tsar; be as slow as thou canst, for thy dogs have gnawed their way through six doors."
Who acts: Tsar, starling · What happens: go, meet, say, be, gnaw · To what, where: courtyard, Tsar, dogs, six doors · 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, starling), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 courtyard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 courtyard | det |
| 6 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 met | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 met | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 starling | det |
| 11 | starling | starling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | nsubj |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 met | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 met | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fast | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 fast | punct |
| 18 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 fast | advmod |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 fast | advmod |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 said | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fast | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 fast | advmod |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 fast | advmod |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 fast | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tsar | punct |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Tsar | amod |
| 27 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 fast | vocative |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 slow | punct |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 slow | cop |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 slow | advmod |
| 31 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | conj |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 canst | mark |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 canst | nsubj |
| 34 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 31 slow | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 gnawed | punct |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 40 gnawed | mark |
| 37 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 38 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 gnawed | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 gnawed | aux |
| 40 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 way | nmod:poss |
| 42 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gnawed | obj |
| 43 | through | through | ADP | _ | 45 doors | case |
| 44 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 doors | nummod |
| 45 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 gnawed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Tsar | the courtyard | then; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | meet | past | the starling | Tsar | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the starling not said here | fast property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | Tsar not said here | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | gnaw in a quote | present · perfect · passive | thy dogs | six doors | 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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