Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 155

And the youngest brother of all said, "I'll take that little damsel who is sitting on the stove in the corner and has the nice kerchief in her hand."

Who acts: youngest brother, little damsel · What happens: say, take, sit, have · To what, where: little damsel, stove, nice kerchief, hand · 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 (youngest brother, little damsel), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 brother	nmod
7	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 damsel	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 damsel	amod
15	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sitting	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sitting	aux
18	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 damsel	acl:relcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 stove	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stove	det
21	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 corner	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 corner	det
24	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 has	cc
26	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 take	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 kerchief	det
28	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 kerchief	amod
29	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 has	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 hand	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hand	nmod:poss
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kerchief	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	participle	the youngest brother of all				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	future	the youngest brother of all = brother	that little damsel			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damsel=Theme
3	sit in a quote	present · progressive	that little damsel		the stove	in the corner	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stove=Location
4	have in a quote	present	the youngest brother of all = brother not said here	the nice kerchief	bride's hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kerchief=Patient

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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