Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 126
And the Tsar asked her, saying, "Wherefore art thou so sorrowful?"--"I am not sorrowful, father," said she.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: ask, say, not be · To what, where: proclamation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 asked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | advcl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 sorrowful | csubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 art | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 art | punct |
| 10 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 art | advmod |
| 11 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 art | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 sorrowful | advmod |
| 14 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorrowful | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorrowful | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 sorrowful | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sorrowful | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 sorrowful | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sorrowful | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 sorrowful | advmod |
| 22 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 father | punct |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sorrowful | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 father | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sorrowful | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Tsar | proclamation | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | the Tsar = tsar | sorrowful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Tsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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