Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 105
So she crept into the hole again and began to beat for game, and out came an old woman, who said to the youth, "What art thou poking about there for?"--And he said to her, "For the golden hare."--She said to him, "It is not here, for this is a snake's hole," and when she had said this she went away.
Who acts: girl, old woman, snake, hare, this · What happens: creep, begin, beat, come, say, poke about · To what, where: hole, youth, girl, snake, this · 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, old woman, snake, hare), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 crept | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 hole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 crept | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 beat | mark |
| 11 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 game | case |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beat | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 woman | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 youth | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 youth | det |
| 26 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 art | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 art | punct |
| 29 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 art | nsubj |
| 30 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | conj |
| 31 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 art | obj |
| 32 | poking | poke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 art | xcomp |
| 33 | about | about | ADV | _ | 34 there | advmod |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 poking | advmod |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 poking | obl |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 32 poking | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 poking | punct |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 said | punct |
| 39 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 said | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 said | nsubj |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | conj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 her | case |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 said | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 hare | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 hare | punct |
| 46 | For | for | ADP | _ | 49 hare | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 hare | det |
| 48 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 hare | amod |
| 49 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 said | ccomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 49 hare | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 hare | punct |
| 52 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 54 said | punct |
| 53 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 said | nsubj |
| 54 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 55 | to | to | ADP | _ | 56 him | case |
| 56 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 said | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 here | punct |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 62 here | punct |
| 59 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 here | nsubj |
| 60 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 62 here | cop |
| 61 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 62 here | advmod |
| 62 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 54 said | ccomp |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 hole | punct |
| 64 | for | for | ADP | _ | 70 hole | case |
| 65 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 70 hole | nsubj |
| 66 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 70 hole | cop |
| 67 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 68 snake | det |
| 68 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 hole | nmod:poss |
| 69 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 68 snake | case |
| 70 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 said | ccomp |
| 71 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 hole | punct |
| 72 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 70 hole | punct |
| 73 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 77 said | cc |
| 74 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 77 said | advmod |
| 75 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 77 said | nsubj |
| 76 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 77 said | aux |
| 77 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 54 said | conj |
| 78 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 77 said | obj |
| 79 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 80 went | nsubj |
| 80 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 77 said | ccomp |
| 81 | away | away | ADV | _ | 80 went | advmod |
| 82 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | girl | the hole | again | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination | |||
| 2 | begin | past | girl not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | beat | to-infinitive | girl not said here | for game | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | a old woman | out property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | a old woman | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to youth=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | poke about in a quote | gerund | a old woman not said here | there | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | snake | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | girl | snake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | not is in a quote | present | hare | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | is in a quote | present | this | for a snake's hole | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | girl | this | tree rules | ||||
| 12 | go away | past | girl | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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