Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 123
Soon afterward the dragon came flying past, and asked the monk, "Hast thou seen a lad and a lass pass by this way?"--"Yes," he replied, "I saw them what time the holy fathers began to build this monastery."
Who acts: monk, holy fathers · What happens: come, fly, ask, have, see, reply · To what, where: monk, thou, lad, monastery · 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 (monk, holy fathers), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | afterward | afterward | ADP | _ | 4 dragon | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 came | xcomp |
| 7 | past | past | ADV | _ | 6 flying | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 monk | det |
| 12 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hast | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hast | punct |
| 15 | Hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 Hast | obj |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 lad | amod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lad | det |
| 19 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Hast | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pass | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pass | det |
| 22 | lass | lass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pass | compound |
| 23 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lad | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Hast | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hast | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hast | punct |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 replied | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 replied | punct |
| 31 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 35 replied | discourse |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Yes | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 replied | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 replied | nsubj |
| 35 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 saw | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 saw | punct |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 saw | nsubj |
| 39 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 replied | parataxis |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 saw | obj |
| 41 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 42 time | det |
| 42 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 began | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 fathers | det |
| 44 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 fathers | amod |
| 45 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 began | nsubj |
| 46 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 saw | conj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 build | mark |
| 48 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 began | xcomp |
| 49 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 monastery | det |
| 50 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 build | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | afterward the dragon; soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | past property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the monk | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent monk=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | thou | by this way | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | reply speech: assert | past | monk | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | see in a quote | past | monk | lad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | begin in a quote | past | the holy fathers | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | build in a quote | to-infinitive | the holy fathers not said here | this monastery | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset monastery=Product |
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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