Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 172
Yes, little brother, he _is_ pursuing!"--"Wave thy handkerchief on the left side!" said the foal.
Who acts: brother, _, _ pursuing · What happens: _, be, wave, say · To what, where: _ pursuing, handkerchief, left side, 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 (brother, _, _ pursuing), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 brother | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 _ | nmod:poss |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 _ | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pursuing | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pursuing | cop |
| 9 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pursuing | amod |
| 10 | pursuing | pursuing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 pursuing | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pursuing | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 Wave | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Wave | punct |
| 15 | Wave | wave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 pursuing | parataxis |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 17 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Wave | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 20 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 side | amod |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Wave | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 Wave | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Wave | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 foal | det |
| 26 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | brother | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | little brother's _ | _ pursuing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wave | infinitive | thy handkerchief | the left side | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | _ pursuing | the foal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent foal=Topic |
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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