Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 135
Then the maiden who had become a fish said to the youth who had become a river, "Now that we are alive and not dead, go back to thy lord-father and thy father's house and see them, and kiss them all except the daughter of thy uncle, for if thou kiss that damsel thou wilt forget me, and I shall go to the land of Nowhere."
Who acts: maiden, youth, we, thou, damsel, I · What happens: become, say, be, not be, go back, see · To what, where: fish, youth, river, me, land · 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 (maiden, youth, we, thou), 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 | 6 become | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 become | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 become | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 become | aux |
| 6 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 go | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 become | xcomp |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fish | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 youth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 become | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 become | aux |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 youth | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 river | det |
| 17 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 become | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 alive | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 alive | punct |
| 20 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 alive | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 alive | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 alive | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 alive | cop |
| 24 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fish | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dead | cc |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 dead | advmod |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 alive | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 become | punct |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 go | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 father | case |
| 32 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 father | nmod:poss |
| 33 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 father | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 lord | punct |
| 35 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 go | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 house | cc |
| 37 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 father | nmod:poss |
| 38 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 house | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 father | case |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 father | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 see | cc |
| 42 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | conj |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 see | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 kiss | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 kiss | cc |
| 46 | kiss | kiss | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | conj |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 kiss | obj |
| 48 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 49 | except | except | ADP | _ | 51 daughter | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 daughter | det |
| 51 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 kiss | obl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 uncle | case |
| 53 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 54 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 54 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 daughter | nmod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 kiss | punct |
| 56 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 59 kiss | mark |
| 57 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 59 kiss | mark |
| 58 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 59 kiss | nsubj |
| 59 | kiss | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 kiss | conj |
| 60 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 64 forget | mark |
| 61 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 forget | nsubj |
| 62 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 61 damsel | obj |
| 63 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 64 forget | aux |
| 64 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 59 kiss | advcl |
| 65 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 64 forget | obj |
| 66 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 go | punct |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 70 go | cc |
| 68 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 70 go | nsubj |
| 69 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 70 go | aux |
| 70 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | conj |
| 71 | to | to | ADP | _ | 73 land | case |
| 72 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 73 land | det |
| 73 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 go | obl |
| 74 | of | of | ADP | _ | 75 Nowhere | case |
| 75 | Nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 73 land | nmod |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 77 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · perfect | the maiden | a fish | then | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | a fish not said here | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to youth=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | become | past · perfect | the youth | a river | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | we | now | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not be in a quote | we not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | go back in a quote | imperative | the youth = youth not said here | to thy lord father and thy father's house result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result | ||||
| 7 | see in a quote | infinitive | the youth = youth not said here | fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | kiss in a quote | infinitive | the youth = youth not said here | fish | except the daughter of thy uncle | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 9 | kiss a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | thou | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | forget in a quote | future | damsel | me | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | go in a quote | shall | I | the land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location |
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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