Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 32
So the little Tsar went up to the tree, and began to climb it; he did not miss a single branch, and stopped a little at each one to gain time, and so he climbed up to the very top, and then he took out his flute and began to play upon it.
Who acts: little Tsar, Tsar · What happens: go up, begin, climb, not miss, stop, gain · To what, where: tree, single branch, little, top, flute
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 went | 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 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 climb | mark |
| 14 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 climb | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 miss | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 miss | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 miss | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 miss | advmod |
| 20 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 branch | det |
| 22 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 branch | amod |
| 23 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 miss | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stopped | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stopped | cc |
| 26 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 little | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stopped | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 one | case |
| 30 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stopped | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 gain | mark |
| 33 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 stopped | advcl |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gain | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 climbed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 climbed | cc |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 climbed | advmod |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 climbed | nsubj |
| 39 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 climbed | compound:prt |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 top | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 top | det |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 top | advmod |
| 44 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 climbed | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 took | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 took | cc |
| 47 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 took | advmod |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 took | nsubj |
| 49 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 50 | out | out | ADP | _ | 49 took | compound:prt |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 flute | nmod:poss |
| 52 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 took | obj |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 began | cc |
| 54 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 took | conj |
| 55 | to | to | PART | _ | 56 play | mark |
| 56 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 54 began | xcomp |
| 57 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 58 it | case |
| 58 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 play | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the little Tsar | to the tree | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the little Tsar not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | climb | to-infinitive | the little Tsar not said here | tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not miss | past · do-support | Tsar | a single branch | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | the little Tsar not said here | a little | at each one | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at one=Location | |||
| 6 | gain | to-infinitive | the little Tsar not said here | time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | climb up | past | Tsar | the top | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | ||||
| 8 | take out | past | Tsar | Tsar's flute | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme | |||
| 9 | begin | past | Tsar not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 10 | play | to-infinitive | Tsar not said here | upon tree | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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