Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 131
Then the Tsar asked her, "Dost thou love this youth?"--And she answered, "I do, dear father."--"Then why didst thou not tell me before, my daughter?" said he.
Who acts: Tsar, thou, youth · What happens: ask, do, love, answer, not do, tell · To what, where: Spirit, youth, dear father, daughter · 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, thou, youth), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 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 | 43 said | advcl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dost | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dost | punct |
| 8 | Dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 love | nsubj |
| 10 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Dost | ccomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 love | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dost | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dost | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 answered | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 father | punct |
| 24 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 father | amod |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 father | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 didst | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 didst | punct |
| 30 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 didst | advmod |
| 31 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 didst | advmod |
| 32 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 said | parataxis |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 tell | nsubj |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 didst | advmod |
| 35 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 didst | xcomp |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 tell | iobj |
| 37 | before | before | ADV | _ | 35 tell | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 daughter | punct |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 40 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tell | obl |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 35 tell | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 tell | punct |
| 43 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 said | nsubj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Tsar | Spirit | then | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | love in a quote | present | thou | this youth | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | Tsar | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present | the Tsar = tsar | dear father | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | not do in a quote | past | then | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | thou | my daughter | youth | before property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||
| 8 | say speech: ask | past | youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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