Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 52
I owe thee naught, and thou owest naught to me; so sit on my back again, and I'll take thee to my master."
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: owe, sit, take · To what, where: thee, naught, me, back, master
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, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 owe | nsubj |
| 2 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 owe | obj |
| 4 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 2 owe | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 owest | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 owest | cc |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 owest | nsubj |
| 8 | owest | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 owe | parataxis |
| 9 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 8 owest | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 owest | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sit | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 sit | advmod |
| 14 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 owe | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sit | obl |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 sit | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 take | nsubj |
| 22 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | aux |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sit | conj |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 master | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 master | nmod:poss |
| 27 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 owe | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 owe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present | I | thee | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent thou=Goal naught=Theme | ||||
| 2 | owe | present | thou | naught | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent naught=Theme to i=Goal | |||
| 3 | sit | infinitive | I not said here | my back | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | |||
| 4 | take | future | I | thee | my master | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to master=Destination |
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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