Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 142

They called to the young damsel to go away, or say who she was, for nobody knew her.

Who acts: fish · What happens: call, go away, say, be · To what, where: young damsel · 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 (fish), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 damsel	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 damsel	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 damsel	amod
6	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	advcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 knew	nsubj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 knew	cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knew	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 knew	mark
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	fish	the young damsel		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to damsel=Recipient
2	go away	to-infinitive	fish not said here		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	fish not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	past			know property	tree rules

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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