Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 97
Then the Tsarivna herself heard the sound of his begging and praying, and commanded them to admit him.
Who acts: Tsarivna · What happens: hear, pray, command, admit · To what, where: sound, people, Tsar · 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 (Tsarivna), 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 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarivna | det |
| 3 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 begging | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 begging | nmod:poss |
| 10 | begging | begging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sound | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 praying | cc |
| 12 | praying | pray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 begging | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 commanded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 commanded | cc |
| 15 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 commanded | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 admit | mark |
| 18 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 commanded | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 admit | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Tsarivna | the sound of Tsar's begging | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pray | gerund | the Tsarivna not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | command | past | the Tsarivna not said here | people | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | admit speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Tsarivna not said here | Tsar | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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