Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 176

They went on and on, until the foal said again, "Look behind, is Wednesday still pursuing?"--So he looked behind him and said, "No, now he is not there."

Who acts: bridegrooms, foal, Wednesday · What happens: go, say, look, pursue, not be · 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	until	until	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	2 went	conj
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Look	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Look	punct
14	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
15	behind	behind	ADV	_	14 Look	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pursuing	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 pursuing	aux
18	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 pursuing	nsubj
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 pursuing	advmod
20	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 Look	advcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 pursuing	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 pursuing	punct
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 looked	punct
24	So	so	ADV	_	26 looked	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
27	behind	behind	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 there	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 there	punct
33	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	39 there	discourse
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 No	punct
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 there	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 there	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 there	cop
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 there	advmod
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 said	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	bridegrooms = bridegroom			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	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	pursue in a quote	present · progressive	Wednesday	still		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	look	past	foal		behind brother	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	bridegrooms = bridegroom not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not is in a quote	present	foal	now	there property	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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