Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 178
Then the youngest brother said, "You go home now, but I am going to seek a bride!"
Who acts: youngest brother, You · What happens: say, go, seek · To what, where: bride · 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 (youngest brother, You), 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 | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 go | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 going | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seek | mark |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 going | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bride | det |
| 20 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the youngest brother | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | You | now | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the youngest brother = brother | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | the youngest brother = brother not said here | a bride | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme |
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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