Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 180

Look!" cried he, "what I've found!"--But the foal said to him, "Pick not up that feather, for it will bring thee evil as well as good!"--But his master said, "Why, I should be a fool not to pick up a feather like that!"

Who acts: brother, I, foal, place, master · What happens: look, cry, find, say, not pick, bring · To what, where: brother, feather, thee, fool · 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 (brother, I, foal, place), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	parataxis
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 found	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
10	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 cried	parataxis
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
15	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 foal	det
17	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Pick	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Pick	punct
23	Pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 Pick	advmod
25	up	up	ADP	_	27 feather	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 feather	det
27	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Pick	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bring	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 bring	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bring	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bring	aux
32	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Pick	conj
33	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 bring	obj
34	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bring	obj
35	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	38 good	cc
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 as	fixed
37	as	as	ADP	_	35 as	fixed
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 evil	conj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 evil	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Pick	punct
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	45 said	punct
42	But	but	CCONJ	_	45 said	cc
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 master	nmod:poss
44	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 said	nsubj
45	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	parataxis
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Why	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 Why	punct
48	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	45 said	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 fool	punct
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 fool	nsubj
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 fool	aux
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 fool	cop
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 fool	det
54	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	parataxis
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 pick	advmod
56	to	to	PART	_	57 pick	mark
57	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	54 fool	parataxis
58	up	up	ADP	_	57 pick	compound:prt
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 feather	det
60	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 pick	obj
61	like	like	ADP	_	62 that	case
62	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 feather	nmod
63	!	!	PUNCT	_	54 fool	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 fool	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past	brother				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	find	present · perfect	I				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the foal		brother		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	not pick	infinitive		that feather			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
6	bring	future	place	thee			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination evil=Theme
7	say speech: assert in a quote	past	brother's master				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is a	should	I	a fool			tree rules
9	not pick up	to-infinitive		a feather		like that	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic

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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