Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 169

He looked round: "Yes, little brother," said he, "Wednesday _is_ pursuing!"--"Shake thy kerchief then!" said the foal.

Who acts: foal, little brother, Wednesday _ · What happens: look, say, be, shake · To what, where: _ pursuing, kerchief · 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 (foal, little brother, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
6	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 said	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 brother	punct
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brother	amod
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 brother	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 brother	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pursuing	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 pursuing	punct
16	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 _	compound
17	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pursuing	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 pursuing	cop
19	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pursuing	amod
20	pursuing	pursuing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 pursuing	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 pursuing	punct
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 Shake	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Shake	punct
25	Shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	parataxis
26	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 kerchief	nmod:poss
27	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Shake	obj
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 Shake	advmod
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 Shake	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Shake	punct
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 foal	det
33	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	foal			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: express	past	little brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	Wednesday _	_ pursuing			tree rules
4	shake in a quote	infinitive		thy kerchief	then		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent kerchief=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	the foal				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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