Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 118
Then the she-dragon's daughter turned herself back into a maiden and the old man into a youth, and off they set again.
Who acts: daughter, lad · What happens: turn back, set · To what, where: dragon, maiden
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 (daughter, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dragon | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 she | punct |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dragon | case |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 turned | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 turned | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 maiden | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 man | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 maiden | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 youth | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 youth | det |
| 20 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 set | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 set | nsubj |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | conj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 set | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | past | the she dragon's daughter | dragon | a maiden and the old man | then | into a youth | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |
| 2 | set | present | lad | again | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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