Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 18

The archer aimed a second time, but the eagle besought him still more and said, "Take me down rather and keep me, and thou shalt see that it will be to thy advantage."

Who acts: archer, eagle, thou, service · What happens: aim, beseech, say, take down, keep, see · To what, where: archer, eagle · 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 (archer, eagle, thou, service), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 archer	det
2	archer	archer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 aimed	nsubj
3	aimed	aim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 aimed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 besought	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 besought	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eagle	det
10	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 besought	nsubj
11	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 aimed	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 besought	obj
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 besought	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 besought	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Take	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Take	punct
19	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 Take	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	19 Take	compound:prt
22	rather	rather	ADV	_	19 Take	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 keep	cc
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Take	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 keep	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 see	nsubj
29	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 aimed	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 advantage	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 advantage	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 advantage	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 advantage	cop
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 advantage	case
36	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 advantage	nmod:poss
37	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	aim	past	the archer		time		vn wish-62 «NP V that S»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	beseech	past	the eagle	archer			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the eagle not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take down in a quote	infinitive		the eagle = eagle			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	keep in a quote	infinitive		the eagle = eagle			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	see in a quote	shall	thou				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is in a quote	future	service			to thy advantage	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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