Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 174

Then they went on still farther, till the foal said again, "Look behind, and see whether Wednesday is still pursuing!"--He looked behind, and there, sure enough, was Wednesday running after them, and he was not very far off either.--"Wave thy kerchief!" said the foal.

Who acts: bridegrooms, foal, Wednesday · What happens: go on, say, look, see, pursue, be · To what, where: Wednesday, 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 (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	still	still	ADV	_	6 farther	advmod
6	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 went	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 said	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 foal	det
10	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Look	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Look	punct
15	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
16	behind	behind	ADV	_	15 Look	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Look	conj
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 pursuing	mark
21	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 pursuing	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 pursuing	aux
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 pursuing	advmod
24	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 see	ccomp
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 pursuing	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Look	punct
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 looked	punct
28	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 looked	nsubj
29	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
30	behind	behind	ADV	_	29 looked	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sure	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sure	cc
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 sure	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sure	punct
35	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	conj
36	enough	enough	ADV	_	35 sure	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Wednesday	punct
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 Wednesday	cop
39	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
40	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
41	after	after	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 running	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 off	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 off	cc
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 off	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 off	cop
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 far	advmod
48	very	very	ADV	_	49 far	advmod
49	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 off	advmod
50	off	off	ADV	_	3 went	parataxis
51	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	50 off	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	55 Wave	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 Wave	punct
55	Wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
56	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	57 kerchief	nmod:poss
57	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 Wave	obj
58	!	!	PUNCT	_	55 Wave	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 Wave	punct
60	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 foal	det
62	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 said	nsubj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	bridegrooms = bridegroom		then	far property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the foal		again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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 in a quote	present · progressive	Wednesday		still		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	look	past	foal			behind property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	is a	past		Wednesday			tree rules
8	run	gerund	bridegrooms = bridegroom not said here		after bridegrooms = bridegroom		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	foal			either, far, off property	tree rules
10	wave in a quote	infinitive	bridegrooms = bridegroom not said here	thy kerchief			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kerchief=Patient
11	say speech: express	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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