Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 37

Come now and sit upon me!"--"Nay, but," said the man, "what if some evil befall me?"--"Sit on me, I say!" cried the eagle.

Who acts: you, evil, I · What happens: come, sit, say, befall, cry · To what, where: man, me, 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 (you, evil, 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Come	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sit	cc
4	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sit	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 Nay	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Nay	punct
11	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	1 Come	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 but	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 befall	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 befall	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 befall	obj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 befall	mark
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 evil	det
24	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 befall	nsubj
25	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 befall	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 befall	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 befall	punct
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 Sit	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Sit	punct
31	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 Sit	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 say	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 say	nsubj
36	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 Sit	parataxis
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 say	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 say	punct
39	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 say	ccomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 eagle	det
41	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cried	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here		now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	infinitive	you not said here			upon me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon i=Location
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you not said here	the man			tree rules
4	befall a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	some evil	me			tree rules
5	sit	infinitive	you not said here			on me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on i=Location
6	say speech: assert	present	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	cry speech: express in a quote	past		the eagle			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Topic

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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