Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 171

Then they went on and on till the foal said to him again, "Look behind, and see if Wednesday is still pursuing!"--He looked round. "

Who acts: bridegrooms, foal, Wednesday · What happens: go, say, look, see, pursue, look round · To what, where: brother · 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, foal, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 on	cc
6	on	on	ADV	_	4 on	conj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 foal	det
9	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	again	again	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Look	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Look	punct
16	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
17	behind	behind	ADV	_	16 Look	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
20	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 Look	conj
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 pursuing	mark
22	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 pursuing	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 pursuing	aux
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 pursuing	advmod
25	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 see	ccomp
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 pursuing	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Look	punct
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 looked	punct
29	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looked	nsubj
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
31	round	round	ADV	_	30 looked	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	bridegrooms = bridegroom		then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the foal	brother	again		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 how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	pursue a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · progressive	Wednesday		still		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	look round	past	foal			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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