Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 32
Shall I slay it, or shall I not slay it?"
Who acts: I · What happens: slay, not slay · To what, where: steer
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 (I), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 slay | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 slay | nsubj |
| 3 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slay | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slay | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 slay | cc |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 slay | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 slay | nsubj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 slay | advmod |
| 10 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 slay | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slay | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 slay | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | shall | I | steer | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not slay | shall | I | steer | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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