Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 134
So she kept on chasing it and chasing it, but finding she could not catch it, she tried to drink up the stream, till she drank so much of it that she burst.
Who acts: dragon, finding · What happens: keep, chase, find, not catch, try, drink up · To what, where: perch, dragon, stream, much
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, finding), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 kept | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 chasing | mark |
| 5 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chasing | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chasing | cc |
| 8 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 chasing | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 chasing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 catch | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 catch | cc |
| 12 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 catch | csubj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 finding | obj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 catch | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 catch | advmod |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kept | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 catch | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tried | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tried | nsubj |
| 20 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 drink | mark |
| 22 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tried | xcomp |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 drink | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stream | det |
| 25 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drink | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drank | punct |
| 27 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 29 drank | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 drank | nsubj |
| 29 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tried | conj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 much | advmod |
| 31 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 drank | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 much | nmod |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 burst | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 burst | nsubj |
| 36 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 much | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | chase | gerund | dragon not said here | perch | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chase | gerund | dragon not said here | perch | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | gerund | dragon | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not catch | could | finding | perch | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | try | past | dragon | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | drink up not said to happen | to-infinitive | dragon not said here | the stream | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient | ||||
| 8 | drink | past | dragon | much of perch | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 9 | burst | past | dragon | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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