Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 1
So the Tsarevko and the Tsarivna lived a long time together in happiness, but one day she asked him, "What of thy kindred and thy father's house?"
Who acts: Tsarevko, she · What happens: live, ask · To what, where: happiness, him
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarevko, she), 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 | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarevko | det |
| 3 | Tsarevko | Tsarevko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Tsarivna | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsarivna | det |
| 6 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tsarevko | conj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 happiness | case |
| 13 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 day | nummod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | nsubj |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lived | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | iobj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 kindred | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 kindred | punct |
| 23 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 kindred | obl |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 kindred | mark |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 kindred | nmod:poss |
| 26 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 asked | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 house | cc |
| 28 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 house | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 father | case |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kindred | conj |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 kindred | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 kindred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Tsarevko and the Tsarivna | happiness | time | together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in happiness=Location | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | she | him = he | day | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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