Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 4
They came to the place where he had left her, and saw that the bucket which was put up for the serpent was full of blood, but that the little Tsar's bucket was all dry and falling to pieces.
Who acts: beasts, Tsarivna, bucket · What happens: come, leave, see, put up, be, fall · To what, where: place, horse, bucket · 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 (beasts, Tsarivna, bucket), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 left | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 full | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bucket | det |
| 16 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 full | nsubj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 put | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 put | aux:pass |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 bucket | acl:relcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 put | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 serpent | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 serpent | det |
| 23 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 full | cop |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 blood | case |
| 27 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 full | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 dry | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 dry | cc |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 dry | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Tsar | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Tsar | amod |
| 33 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 bucket | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 Tsar | case |
| 35 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dry | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 dry | cop |
| 37 | all | all | ADV | _ | 38 dry | advmod |
| 38 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | parataxis |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 falling | cc |
| 40 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 dry | conj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 pieces | case |
| 42 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 falling | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | beasts = beast | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | Tsarivna | horse | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | beasts = beast not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | put up | past · passive | the bucket | for the serpent | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the bucket | of blood; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the little Tsar's bucket | all, dry property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fall | gerund | the little Tsar's bucket not said here | to pieces | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to piece=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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