Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 157
But the youngest brother of all said to himself, "I will bring my foal into the room."
Who acts: youngest brother · What happens: say, bring · To what, where: brother, foal, room · 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), 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 | But | but | 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | aux |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 foal | nmod:poss |
| 16 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 room | det |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | participle | the youngest brother of all | brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | future | the youngest brother of all = brother | my foal | the room | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foal=Theme into room=Destination |
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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