Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 168
They trotted on and on, and at last the foal said to him, "Look behind, and see whether Wednesday is not pursuing."
Who acts: bridegrooms, last, Wednesday · What happens: trot, say, look, see, not pursue · To what, where: foal · 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 (bridegrooms, last, Wednesday), 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 trotted | nsubj |
| 2 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 trotted | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 on | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 foal | det |
| 11 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 last | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trotted | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Look | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Look | punct |
| 17 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 17 Look | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 see | cc |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 Look | conj |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 26 pursuing | mark |
| 23 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 pursuing | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 pursuing | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 pursuing | advmod |
| 26 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 see | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trotted | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 trotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot | past | bridegrooms = bridegroom | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | last | foal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | behind property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | not pursue in a quote | present · progressive | Wednesday | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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