Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 21
Kiss her," said the little Tsar to the little fox.
Who acts: you, little Tsar · What happens: kiss, say · To what, where: hare, little fox · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | Kiss | kiss | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Kiss | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kiss | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kiss | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Kiss | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tsar | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Tsar | amod |
| 8 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fox | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fox | amod |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kiss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | imperative | you not said here | hare | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the little Tsar | the little fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fox=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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