Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 12
She immediately went and commanded the ant to be there by evening, and when the ant came, the Tsaritsa ordered her to climb up the trees with her kinsmen and bite off the feathers round the birds' wings.
Who acts: ant, Tsaritsa · What happens: go, command, be, come, order, climb up · To what, where: ant, trees, feathers · 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 (ant, Tsaritsa), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 commanded | cc |
| 5 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ant | det |
| 7 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commanded | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 there | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 there | cop |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 ant | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 evening | case |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 there | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ordered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ordered | cc |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ant | det |
| 17 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ordered | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Tsaritsa | det |
| 21 | Tsaritsa | Tsaritsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ordered | nsubj |
| 22 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ordered | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 climb | mark |
| 25 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ordered | xcomp |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 climb | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 trees | det |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 climb | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 kinsmen | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 31 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 climb | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bite | cc |
| 33 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 feathers | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 feathers | det |
| 36 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bite | obl |
| 37 | round | round | ADP | _ | 41 wings | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 birds | det |
| 39 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 wings | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 39 birds | case |
| 41 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bite | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | ant | immediately property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | command | past | ant not said here | the ant | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent ant=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | ant not said here | the ant not said here | evening | there property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | come | past | the ant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | order | past | the Tsaritsa | ant | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | climb up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Tsaritsa not said here | the trees | with ant's kinsmen | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | |||
| 7 | bite off | present | ant not said here | the feathers | round the birds's wings | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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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