Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 111
Soon after, the old she-dragon discovered that it was not the golden hare, but her own daughter, so she set about chasing after them to destroy them both, for the daughter had made haste in the meantime to join Ivan.
Who acts: old she dragon, hare, dragon, bears, daughter · What happens: discover, not be, set, chase, destroy, make · To what, where: own daughter, golden hare, tasks, haste, meantime, Ivan
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 (old she dragon, hare, dragon, bears), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 discovered | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 1 Soon | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dragon | amod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dragon | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 she | punct |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discovered | nsubj |
| 9 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 hare | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hare | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hare | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 hare | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hare | det |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hare | amod |
| 16 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discovered | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 daughter | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 daughter | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 daughter | amod |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discovered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 set | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 set | nsubj |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 discovered | parataxis |
| 26 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 27 chasing | mark |
| 27 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 set | advcl |
| 28 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 31 destroy | mark |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 destroy | nsubj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 destroy | mark |
| 31 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 chasing | advcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 destroy | obj |
| 33 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 them | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 made | punct |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 made | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 daughter | det |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 made | aux |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 set | conj |
| 40 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | xcomp |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 meantime | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 meantime | det |
| 43 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 join | mark |
| 45 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 made | advcl |
| 46 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 join | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | the old she dragon | girl's own daughter | soon property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not is a | past | hare | the golden hare | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | past | dragon | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | chase | gerund | dragon not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | destroy | to-infinitive | bears = bear | tasks = task | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 6 | make | past · perfect | the daughter | haste | the meantime | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | join | to-infinitive | the daughter not said here | Ivan | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Patient |
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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