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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

ccdetnsubjdetnsubjccconjnmod:possobjmarkadvcldetobjpunctdetamodnsubjacl:relclcasenmod:posscompoundpunctamodoblpunctpunctparataxiscaseoblpunctpunctcccasenmod:possoblnsubjconjpunctpunctoblpunctrootButCCONJtheDETmomentNOUNtheDETdragonNOUNappearedVERBandCCONJopenedVERBhisPRONmouthNOUNtoPARTdevourVERBtheDETTsarivnaPROPN,PUNCTtheDETlittleADJTsarPROPNcriedVERBtoADPhisPRONselfNOUN-PUNCTslicingVERBswordNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTFallVERBuponADPhimPRON!PUNCT"PUNCTandCCONJtoADPhisPRONbeastsNOUNhePRONcriedVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTProtiusPROPN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_6 appearedcc
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 momentdet
3momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing6 appearednsubj
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 dragondet
5dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing6 appearednsubj
6appearedappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7andandCCONJ_8 openedcc
8openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 appearedconj
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 mouthnmod:poss
10mouthmouthNOUNNumber=Sing8 openedobj
11totoPART_12 devourmark
12devourdevourVERBVerbForm=Inf8 openedadvcl
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 Tsarivnadet
14TsarivnaTsarivnaPROPNNumber=Sing12 devourobj
15,,PUNCT_19 criedpunct
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 Tsardet
17littlelittleADJDegree=Pos18 Tsaramod
18TsarTsarPROPNNumber=Sing19 criednsubj
19criedcryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 Tsarivnaacl:relcl
20totoADP_25 swordcase
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 swordnmod:poss
22selfselfNOUNNumber=Sing24 slicingcompound
23--PUNCT_22 selfpunct
24slicingsliceVERBVerbForm=Ger25 swordamod
25swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing19 criedobl
26,,PUNCT_28 Fallpunct
27""PUNCT_28 Fallpunct
28FallfallVERBVerbForm=Inf19 criedparataxis
29uponuponADP_30 himcase
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 Fallobl
31!!PUNCT_28 Fallpunct
32""PUNCT_28 Fallpunct
33andandCCONJ_38 criedcc
34totoADP_36 beastscase
35hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 beastsnmod:poss
36beastsbeastNOUNNumber=Plur38 criedobl
37hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 criednsubj
38criedcryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 criedconj
39,,PUNCT_41 Protiuspunct
40""PUNCT_41 Protiuspunct
41ProtiusProtiusPROPNNumber=Sing38 criedobl
42!!PUNCT_6 appearedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1appearpastthe momentvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2openpastthe moment not said hereTsar's mouthvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
3devourto-infinitivethe moment not said herethe Tsarivnavn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsarivna=Patient
4cry speech: expresspastthe little Tsarthe Tsarivna not said hereto Tsar's slicing swordtree rules
5slicegerundvn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6fall in a quoteinfinitiveupon Tsarvn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
7cry speech: expresspastTsarProtiusTsar's beastsvn 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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