Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 81
The Eagle rose ever so high, flew and flew, then dropt down again to the earth and said:--
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: rise, fly, dropt down, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle), 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 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 rose | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 high | advmod |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rose | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flew | cc |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dropt | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 dropt | advmod |
| 13 | dropt | dropt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 flew | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 dropt | compound:prt |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 dropt | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropt | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the Eagle | ever | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fly | past | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fly | past | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | dropt down | infinitive | then; again | to the earth | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the Eagle not said here | 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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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