Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 63
But the moment the dragon appeared and opened his mouth to devour the Tsarivna, the little Tsar cried to his self-slicing sword, "Fall upon him!" and to his beasts he cried, "Protius!
Who acts: moment, little Tsar, Tsar · What happens: appear, open, devour, cry, slice, fall · To what, where: mouth, Tsarivna, Protius, beasts · 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 (moment, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 appeared | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | nsubj |
| 6 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 opened | cc |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appeared | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 devour | mark |
| 12 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 opened | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tsarivna | det |
| 14 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 devour | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Tsar | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Tsar | amod |
| 18 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Tsarivna | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 sword | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sword | nmod:poss |
| 22 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slicing | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 self | punct |
| 24 | slicing | slice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 sword | amod |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Fall | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Fall | punct |
| 28 | Fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cried | parataxis |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 Fall | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 Fall | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Fall | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 cried | cc |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 beasts | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 36 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cried | obl |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 cried | nsubj |
| 38 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cried | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Protius | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Protius | punct |
| 41 | Protius | Protius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 cried | obl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the moment | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | past | the moment not said here | Tsar's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | devour | to-infinitive | the moment not said here | the Tsarivna | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsarivna=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the little Tsar | the Tsarivna not said here | to Tsar's slicing sword | tree rules | |||
| 5 | slice | gerund | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | fall in a quote | infinitive | upon Tsar | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | |||||
| 7 | cry speech: express | past | Tsar | Protius | Tsar's beasts | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to beast=Recipient |
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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