Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 103
Then she came out of the hole and said to him, "What! has nothing come out?"--"Well," said he, "only a snake, and I was afraid it would bite me, so I let it go."--"What hast thou done?" said she; "that was the very hare itself.
Who acts: girl, snake, hole, that · What happens: come out, say, be, bite, let, go · To what, where: hole, snake, thou, hare · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, snake, hole, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 hole | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hole | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 What | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 What | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 come | nsubj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 What | punct |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Well | punct |
| 24 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 27 said | discourse |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Well | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Well | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 snake | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 snake | punct |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 snake | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 snake | det |
| 33 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | ccomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 afraid | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 afraid | cc |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 afraid | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 afraid | cop |
| 38 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 said | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 bite | nsubj |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 bite | aux |
| 41 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 afraid | ccomp |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 bite | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 let | punct |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 let | advmod |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 let | nsubj |
| 46 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 let | obj |
| 48 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 let | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 go | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 let | punct |
| 51 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 54 hast | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 hast | punct |
| 53 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 54 hast | obj |
| 54 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 55 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 54 hast | obj |
| 56 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 hast | advcl |
| 57 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 56 done | punct |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 done | punct |
| 59 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 60 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 said | nsubj |
| 61 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 67 hare | punct |
| 62 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 67 hare | punct |
| 63 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 67 hare | nsubj |
| 64 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 67 hare | cop |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 hare | det |
| 66 | very | very | ADV | _ | 67 hare | advmod |
| 67 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 68 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 67 hare | nmod:unmarked |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | girl | the hole | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | girl not said here | snake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come out in a quote | present | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | snake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | snake | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bite in a quote | would | hole | snake | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 7 | let in a quote | past | snake | hole | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | go in a quote | infinitive | hole not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | have in a quote | present | girl not said here | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | do in a quote | participle | girl not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | say speech: ask | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 12 | is a in a quote | past | that | the hare | hole nmod:unmarked | 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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