Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 146
They went on and on, through ten tsardoms they went, till they came to another empire in the land of Thrice Ten where lay the feather.
Who acts: TREMSIN · What happens: go, come, lay · To what, where: ten tsardoms, empire, feather
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 (TREMSIN), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 on | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tsardoms | punct |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 tsardoms | case |
| 8 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 tsardoms | nummod |
| 9 | tsardoms | tsardom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tsardoms | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 empire | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 empire | det |
| 18 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 land | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 land | det |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 empire | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Thrice | case |
| 23 | Thrice | Thrice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 land | appos |
| 24 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 Thrice | flat |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 lay | advmod |
| 26 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Thrice | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 feather | det |
| 28 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | TREMSIN | ten tsardoms | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through tsardom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | TREMSIN | ten tsardoms not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tsardom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | TREMSIN | another empire in the land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to empire=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | lay | infinitive | TREMSIN not said here | the feather | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Result |
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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