Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 27
The eagle flew round and round, he flew about for half a day, and then he returned to the archer and said, "I feel I have but little strength in me, slay me another cow!"
Who acts: eagle · What happens: fly, return, say, feel, have, slay · To what, where: little strength, 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 (eagle), 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 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 round | cc |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 round | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 flew | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 12 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 14 day | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 returned | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 returned | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 archer | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 archer | det |
| 22 | archer | archer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 feel | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 feel | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 feel | nsubj |
| 28 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | ccomp |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 feel | ccomp |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 strength | cc |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 strength | amod |
| 33 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 me | case |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 strength | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 slay | punct |
| 37 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 feel | conj |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 slay | obj |
| 39 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 cow | det |
| 40 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 slay | obj |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the eagle | round property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | eagle | day | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | return | past | eagle | then | to the archer result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to archer=Result | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | the eagle not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | feel in a quote | present | the eagle = eagle | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | the eagle = eagle | little strength | in the eagle = eagle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | |||
| 7 | slay in a quote | infinitive | the eagle = eagle not said here | the eagle = eagle | 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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