Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 108
So she changed herself into a hare, and he took and laid her on the table, and said to the she-dragon, "There's thy hare for thee, and now let me go away!"
Who acts: girl, snake, hare · What happens: change, take, lay, say, be, let · To what, where: girl, table, dragon · 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, 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 changed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 changed | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 hare | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hare | det |
| 7 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laid | cc |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laid | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 table | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 table | det |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 dragon | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dragon | det |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dragon | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 dragon | punct |
| 25 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 's | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 's | punct |
| 28 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 's | expl |
| 29 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 30 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 hare | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 's | nsubj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 thee | case |
| 33 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 's | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 let | cc |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 let | advmod |
| 37 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | parataxis |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 let | obj |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 let | xcomp |
| 40 | away | away | ADV | _ | 39 go | advmod |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | girl | girl | into a hare | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | snake | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | snake not said here | girl | the table | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on table=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | girl not said here | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dragon=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | thy hare | there | for thee | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | girl | now | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go away in a quote | infinitive | girl not said here | 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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