Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 36
Then he flew down again to the man and said to him, "I thank thee, brother, for that thou hast been the saving of me!
Who acts: eagle, that · What happens: fly down, say, thank, be · To what, where: eagle, thee, saving · 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, that), 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 flew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 flew | compound:prt |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thank | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 thank | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 thank | nsubj |
| 16 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 thank | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brother | punct |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thank | vocative |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 saving | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 saving | nsubj |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 saving | nsubj |
| 24 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 saving | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 saving | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 saving | det |
| 27 | saving | saving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thank | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 saving | nmod |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly down | past | eagle | then; again | to the man result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to man=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | eagle not said here | eagle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | eagle | thee | brother vocative | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | that | the saving | of 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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