Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 187

But the old woman ran off to the Tsar, and said to him, "A certain man has come to me and laid a certain feather on the window-sill, and it shines like fire!"

Who acts: old woman, certain man, sill · What happens: run off, say, come, lay, shine · To what, where: brother, me, certain feather, window sill · 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 (old woman, certain man, sill), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Tsar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tsar	det
9	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
17	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	nsubj
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 come	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 laid	cc
25	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 feather	det
27	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feather	amod
28	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 laid	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	33 sill	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sill	det
31	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sill	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 window	punct
33	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 laid	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 shines	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 shines	cc
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 shines	nsubj
37	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	parataxis
38	like	like	ADP	_	39 fire	case
39	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shines	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 shines	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the old woman				to the Tsar	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past			brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	come in a quote	present · perfect	a certain man		me			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
4	lay in a quote	past	a certain man not said here	a certain feather		the window sill		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feather=Theme on sill=Destination
5	shine in a quote	present	sill				like fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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