Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 28

And the archer obeyed him, and slew the second cow, and the eagle lived upon that for yet another year.

Who acts: archer, eagle · What happens: obey, slay, live · To what, where: eagle, second cow, that

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 obeyed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 archer	det
3	archer	archer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obeyed	nsubj
4	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 obeyed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slew	cc
8	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obeyed	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cow	det
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 cow	amod
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slew	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lived	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lived	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eagle	det
15	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lived	nsubj
16	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 slew	conj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 lived	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 year	case
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 year	advmod
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 year	det
22	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lived	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	obey	past	the archer	eagle			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	slay	past	the archer not said here	the second cow			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient
3	live	past	the eagle		that	year	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon that=Location

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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