Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 114

I'll turn myself into standing wheat and thee into an old man guarding me, and if he ask thee, 'Hast thou seen a lad and a lass pass by this way?' say to him, 'Yes, they passed by this way while I was sowing this wheat!'"

Who acts: I, old man, man, lad · What happens: turn, stand, guard, ask, have, see · To what, where: myself, wheat, me, thee, thou, man · 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 (I, old man, man, lad), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 turn	obj
5	into	into	SCONJ	_	6 standing	mark
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 turn	advcl
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thee	cc
9	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 wheat	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 man	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl
14	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 man	acl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 guarding	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Hast	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Hast	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 ask	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ask	nsubj
20	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 Hast	advcl
21	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 ask	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 Hast	punct
24	Hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	conj
25	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 Hast	obj
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 lad	amod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lad	det
28	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Hast	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pass	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pass	det
31	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pass	compound
32	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lad	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 way	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 way	det
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Hast	obl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 say	punct
38	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	parataxis
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 say	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 passed	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	46 passed	punct
43	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	46 passed	discourse
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Yes	punct
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 passed	nsubj
46	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 say	ccomp
47	by	by	ADP	_	49 way	case
48	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 way	det
49	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 passed	obl
50	while	while	SCONJ	_	53 sowing	mark
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 sowing	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 sowing	aux
53	sowing	sow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 passed	advcl
54	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 wheat	det
55	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sowing	obj
56	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct
57	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	turn	future	I	myself			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
2	stand	gerund	I not said here	wheat		into a old man	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wheat=Stimulus
3	guard	gerund	a old man not said here		me		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
4	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	man	thee			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
5	have	present	I not said here	thou		by this way	tree rules
6	see	participle					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	say speech: assert	infinitive			man		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
8	pass	past	lad			by this way	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by way=Location
9	sow	past · progressive	I	this wheat			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=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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