Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 23
Now this archer had two cows and a steer, and he at once killed and cut up one of the cows for the eagle.
Who acts: archer · What happens: have, kill, cut up · To what, where: two cows, archer, one
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 archer | det |
| 3 | archer | archer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 cows | nummod |
| 6 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 steer | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 steer | det |
| 9 | steer | steer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cows | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 killed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 killed | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 15 killed | mark |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 killed | advmod |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cut | cc |
| 17 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 killed | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 cut | compound:prt |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 cut | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cows | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cows | det |
| 22 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 eagle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 eagle | det |
| 25 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cows | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this archer | two cows and a steer | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient | |||
| 2 | kill | participle · passive | archer | once property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut up | participle | one of the cows for the eagle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |
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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