Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Sparrow and the Bush, sentence 1

A sparrow once flew down upon a bush and said, "Little bush, give good little sparrow a swing."--"I won't!" said the little bush.

Who acts: sparrow, little bush · What happens: fly down, say, give · To what, where: bush, good little sparrow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Sparrow and the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrow, little bush), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sparrow	det
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 flew	advmod
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 bush	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bush	det
8	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bush	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bush	punct
13	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bush	amod
14	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
16	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sparrow	amod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sparrow	amod
19	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 swing	det
21	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 wo	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 wo	nsubj
27	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 said	ccomp
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 wo	advmod
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 wo	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 wo	punct
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bush	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bush	amod
34	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly down	past	a sparrow		a bush	down, once property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bush=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	a sparrow not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	give in a quote	present	a sparrow not said here	good little sparrow			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Recipient swing=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the little bush				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: «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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