Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 27
So they all lived the merry lives of Tsars who feast continually.
Who acts: branches, Tsars · What happens: live, feast · To what, where: merry lives
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 (branches, Tsars), 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 | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lives | det |
| 6 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lives | amod |
| 7 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Tsars | case |
| 9 | Tsars | tsar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lives | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 feast | nsubj |
| 11 | feast | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Tsars | acl:relcl |
| 12 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 11 feast | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | branches = branch | the merry lives of Tsars | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 2 | feast | present | Tsars | continually property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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