Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 159
Now his bride lay down with her kerchief in her hand, and he took a great fancy to it, and he begged and prayed her for it again and again, until at last she gave it to him.
Who acts: bride, brother · What happens: lie down, take, beg, pray, give · To what, where: great fancy, fancy, bride, brother, last
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 (bride, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lay | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bride | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 kerchief | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kerchief | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kerchief | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fancy | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fancy | amod |
| 18 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 begged | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 begged | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 begged | nsubj |
| 24 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 prayed | cc |
| 26 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 begged | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 prayed | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 prayed | obl |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 prayed | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 again | cc |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 again | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 gave | punct |
| 34 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 38 gave | mark |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 last | case |
| 36 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gave | obl |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 gave | nsubj |
| 38 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 begged | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 gave | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 gave | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | brother's bride | now | with bride's kerchief in bride's hand; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | take | past | brother | a great fancy | fancy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to it=Destination | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | brother | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pray | past | brother not said here | bride | again | for fancy | tree rules | ||
| 5 | give | past | bride | fancy | brother | last | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=Asset to he=Recipient |
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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