Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 129
Then the damsel said to Ivan, "I fear me 'tis all over, for she is coming herself!
Who acts: damsel, dragon · What happens: say, fear, come · To what, where: Ivan, damsel, dragon · 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 (damsel, dragon), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 damsel | det |
| 3 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Ivan | case |
| 6 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fear | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fear | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fear | nsubj |
| 10 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fear | obj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 tis | punct |
| 13 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fear | conj |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 over | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 fear | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 coming | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 coming | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 coming | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 coming | aux |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | advcl |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 coming | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the damsel | Ivan | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ivan=Recipient | |||
| 2 | fear in a quote | present | the damsel = damsel | the damsel = damsel | over property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · progressive | dragon | dragon | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=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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