Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 134

The Tsar met him, and bought all his boards, and when they split them in pieces, lo! they were full of precious stones.

Who acts: Tsar, boards, heyducks · What happens: meet, buy, split, be · To what, where: youth, boards, heyducks, pieces

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, boards, heyducks), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tsar	det
2	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 met	nsubj
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 met	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bought	cc
7	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 met	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 boards	det:predet
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 boards	nmod:poss
10	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bought	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 full	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 full	cc
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 split	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 split	nsubj
15	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 full	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 split	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 pieces	case
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 split	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 split	punct
20	lo	lo	INTJ	_	24 full	discourse
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 lo	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 full	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 full	cop
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 met	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 stones	case
26	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stones	amod
27	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 full	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the Tsar	youth			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	buy	past	the Tsar not said here	youth's boards			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme
3	split	past	boards = board	heyducks = heyduck	pieces		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	is	past	heyducks = heyduck			of precious stones; full property	tree rules

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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