Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 19
The archer, however, took aim a third time, but the eagle began to beg of him most piteously, "Nay, kill me not, but take me home with thee, and thou shalt see what great advantage it will be to thee!"
Who acts: archer, eagle, thou, advantage · What happens: take, aim, begin, beg, not kill, see · To what, where: 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, advantage), 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 | 6 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 archer | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | aim | aim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 took | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 aim | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eagle | det |
| 14 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 beg | mark |
| 17 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 beg | obl |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 piteously | advmod |
| 21 | piteously | piteously | ADV | _ | 17 beg | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 kill | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 kill | punct |
| 24 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 26 kill | discourse |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Nay | punct |
| 26 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 beg | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 kill | obj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 kill | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 take | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 take | cc |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | parataxis |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 take | obj |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 31 take | advmod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 thee | case |
| 35 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 take | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 see | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 see | cc |
| 38 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 see | nsubj |
| 39 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 40 see | aux |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 took | parataxis |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 see | obj |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 advantage | amod |
| 43 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 what | nsubj |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 thee | nsubj |
| 45 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 thee | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 thee | cop |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 thee | case |
| 48 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 41 what | acl:relcl |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 see | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the archer | however property | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | aim | infinitive | the archer not said here | time | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the eagle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | the eagle not said here | of eagle; piteously property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not kill in a quote | infinitive | the eagle not said here | the eagle = eagle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | infinitive | the eagle = eagle | with thee; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 7 | see in a quote | shall | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | future | advantage | to thee | 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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