Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 46
And the man replied, "I feel just as if all my bones were already broken to bits!"--"That is just how I felt when thou didst take aim at me the second time," replied the eagle. "
Who acts: man, That, eagle, thou · What happens: reply, feel, break, be, do, take · To what, where: bones, aim · 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 (man, That, eagle, thou), 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 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feel | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 feel | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 as | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 feel | advmod |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 broken | mark |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 bones | det:predet |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bones | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | aux:pass |
| 16 | already | already | ADV | _ | 17 broken | advmod |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 feel | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bits | case |
| 19 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 broken | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 bits | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bits | punct |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 felt | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 felt | punct |
| 24 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 how | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 how | cop |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 how | advmod |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 felt | advmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 felt | nsubj |
| 29 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | conj |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 didst | advmod |
| 31 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 didst | nsubj |
| 32 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 felt | advcl |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 didst | ccomp |
| 34 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 take | obl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 time | det |
| 38 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 39 time | amod |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 replied | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 replied | punct |
| 42 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 eagle | det |
| 44 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 replied | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | present | the man = man | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | break a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · passive | my bones | to bits result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to bit=Result | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | That | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel in a quote | past | the eagle = eagle | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | past | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | take in a quote | infinitive | thou not said here | aim | time | at the eagle = eagle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent aim=Theme at i=Asset | ||
| 8 | reply speech: assert | past | the eagle | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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