Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 17
And lo! there came an archer along that way, and seeing the eagle on the tree, he took aim at it; but the eagle besought him and said, "Do not kill me, and I'll be of great service to thee!"
Who acts: eagle · What happens: come, see, take, aim, beseech, say · To what, where: archer, eagle, tree, way, war · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 5 came | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lo | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 came | expl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 archer | det |
| 7 | archer | archer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obj |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 13 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 took | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eagle | det |
| 15 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seeing | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seeing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seeing | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 22 | aim | aim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 took | xcomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 aim | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 besought | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 besought | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 eagle | det |
| 28 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 besought | nsubj |
| 29 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 besought | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 said | cc |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 besought | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 kill | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 kill | punct |
| 35 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 kill | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 kill | advmod |
| 37 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 said | ccomp |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 kill | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 service | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 service | cc |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 service | nsubj |
| 42 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 service | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 service | cop |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 service | case |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 service | amod |
| 46 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | parataxis |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 thee | case |
| 48 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 46 service | nmod |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 46 service | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 service | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a archer | there | along that way | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | eagle not said here | the eagle | the tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | take | past | eagle | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | aim | infinitive | eagle not said here | way | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | beseech | past | the eagle | war | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: express | past | the eagle not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | not kill in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the eagle = eagle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | future | the eagle = eagle | of great service; to thee | tree rules |
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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