Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 193
Then he took off his gold ring, and said to the man, "Thou didst get the feather of the bird Zhar, get me also this golden ring of mine out of the vat of boiling milk!"--"Bring hither, then, my faithful horse," said he, "that he may see his master plunge into the vat of boiling milk and die!"
Who acts: brother, Thou · What happens: take off, say, do, get, bring, see · To what, where: gold ring, man, feather, golden ring, brother, master plunge · 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, Thou), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ring | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ring | amod |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 didst | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 didst | punct |
| 16 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 didst | nsubj |
| 17 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 didst | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 feather | det |
| 20 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bird | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bird | det |
| 23 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feather | nmod |
| 24 | Zhar | Zhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 bird | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 get | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 get | obj |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 31 ring | advmod |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 ring | det |
| 30 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ring | amod |
| 31 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 mine | case |
| 33 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 ring | nmod |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 vat | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 vat | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 vat | det |
| 37 | vat | vat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ring | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 milk | case |
| 39 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 milk | compound |
| 40 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 vat | nmod |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 37 vat | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 didst | punct |
| 43 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 45 Bring | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 Bring | punct |
| 45 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 46 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 45 Bring | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 horse | punct |
| 48 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 horse | advmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 horse | punct |
| 50 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 horse | nmod:poss |
| 51 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 horse | amod |
| 52 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Bring | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 55 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 56 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 said | nsubj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 see | punct |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 62 see | punct |
| 59 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 62 see | mark |
| 60 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 see | nsubj |
| 61 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 62 see | aux |
| 62 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 55 said | conj |
| 63 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 65 plunge | nmod:poss |
| 64 | master | master | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 plunge | amod |
| 65 | plunge | plunge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 see | obj |
| 66 | into | into | ADP | _ | 68 vat | case |
| 67 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 vat | det |
| 68 | vat | vat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 see | obl |
| 69 | of | of | ADP | _ | 71 milk | case |
| 70 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 milk | compound |
| 71 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 vat | nmod |
| 72 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 73 die | cc |
| 73 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 62 see | conj |
| 74 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 75 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | brother | brother's gold ring | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | brother not said here | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | Thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | Thou not said here | the feather of the bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | get in a quote | infinitive | Thou not said here | this golden ring of mine | brother | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary ring=Theme | |||
| 6 | bring in a quote | infinitive | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | say speech: express | past | brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | see in a quote | may | brother | brother's master plunge | the vat of boiling milk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plunge=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | die in a quote | infinitive | brother not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 10 | plunge in a quote | brother | nom plunge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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