Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 115
A little while afterward the she-dragon's husband came flying up. "
Who acts: little while · What happens: come, fly up
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 (little while), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 while | amod |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 4 | afterward | afterward | ADP | _ | 10 husband | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 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 | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 dragon | case |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 while | nmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 came | xcomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 flying | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a little while afterward the she dragon's husband | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fly up | gerund | a little while afterward the she dragon's husband not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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