Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 119
But the dragon returned home, and the she-dragon asked him, "What! hast thou not caught them or met them on the road?"--"Met them, no!" said he. "
Who acts: dragon, she dragon, thou, man · What happens: return, ask, have, not catch, meet, say · To what, where: man, lad, road · 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 (dragon, she dragon, thou, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 returned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dragon | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 she | punct |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 What | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 What | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 said | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 hast | punct |
| 18 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 What | acl:relcl |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 caught | nsubj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 caught | advmod |
| 21 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hast | ccomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 caught | obj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 met | cc |
| 24 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 caught | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 met | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 road | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 road | det |
| 28 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 met | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 hast | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hast | punct |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 Met | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Met | punct |
| 33 | Met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 What | acl:relcl |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 Met | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 What | punct |
| 36 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 39 said | discourse |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 no | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 no | punct |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | parataxis |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 said | nsubj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the dragon | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the she dragon | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not catch in a quote | past | thou | lad | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | meet in a quote | past | thou not said here | lad | the road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | meet in a quote | past | lad | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||||
| 7 | say speech: ask | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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