Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 16
But there was one eagle who saw there was something wrong, so he did not try to fly, but remained sitting on the tree.
Who acts: one eagle, something, eagle · What happens: be, not try, fly, remain, sit · To what, where: tree · 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 (one eagle, something, eagle), 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 | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eagle | nummod |
| 5 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 was | nsubj |
| 11 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 something | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 try | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 try | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 try | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 try | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 try | advmod |
| 17 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saw | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 fly | mark |
| 19 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 try | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 remained | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 remained | cc |
| 22 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 remained | xcomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sitting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | one eagle | see property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not try | past · do-support | eagle | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fly not said to happen | to-infinitive | eagle not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | remain | past | one eagle not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sit | gerund | one eagle not said here | the tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=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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