Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 58
Then little Tsar Novishny stepped forth and said, "I am able to slay this evil dragon!"
Who acts: little Tsar · What happens: step, say, be, slay · To what, where: evil dragon · 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), 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 | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tsar | amod |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | Novishny | Novishny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tsar | flat |
| 5 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stepped | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 able | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 able | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 able | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 able | cop |
| 13 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 slay | mark |
| 15 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 able | xcomp |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 dragon | det |
| 17 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dragon | amod |
| 18 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slay | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | little Tsar | then | forth property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | little Tsar not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | little Tsar = tsar | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | slay in a quote | to-infinitive | little Tsar = tsar not said here | this evil dragon | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |
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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