Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 179
So he went on and on till he came to a place where lay a feather of the bird Zhar. "
Who acts: brother · What happens: go, come, lay · To what, where: place, feather
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 lay | advmod |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 place | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feather | det |
| 16 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bird | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feather | nmod |
| 20 | Zhar | Zhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bird | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | brother | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | brother | a place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | a feather of the bird | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Result |
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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