Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 98
And the third time the Eagle jerked him on to its wing, and asked:--
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: jerk on, ask · To what, where: King
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 jerked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jerked | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Eagle | det |
| 6 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 jerked | nsubj |
| 7 | jerked | jerk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 jerked | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 jerked | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 wing | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wing | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jerked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 jerked | parataxis |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 jerked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jerk on | past | the Eagle | King | time | to neck's wing | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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