Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 54
And the eagle said to the archer, "Go to my house, and when they ask thee, 'Hast thou not seen our poor child?' reply, 'Give me the magic egg, and I'll bring him before your eyes!'"
Who acts: eagle, bones, thou · What happens: say, go, ask, have, not see, give · To what, where: archer, house, thee, poor child, magic egg, 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 (eagle, bones, 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 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 archer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 archer | det |
| 7 | archer | archer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 10 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ask | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ask | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 ask | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ask | nsubj |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 ask | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hast | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hast | punct |
| 22 | Hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ask | conj |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 seen | nsubj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 seen | advmod |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Hast | ccomp |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 child | nmod:poss |
| 27 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 child | amod |
| 28 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seen | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 seen | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 reply | punct |
| 31 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seen | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Give | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 Give | punct |
| 34 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 reply | parataxis |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 Give | iobj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 egg | det |
| 37 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 egg | compound |
| 38 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Give | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 bring | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 bring | cc |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 bring | nsubj |
| 42 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 bring | aux |
| 43 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 bring | obj |
| 45 | before | before | ADP | _ | 47 eyes | case |
| 46 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 47 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 bring | obl |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 43 bring | punct |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 bring | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the eagle | the archer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to archer=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | my house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | bones = bone | thee | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | bones = bone not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not see in a quote | participle | thou | our poor child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | give in a quote | infinitive | the magic egg | the eagle = eagle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient egg=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bring in a quote | future | the eagle = eagle | eagle | your eyes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before eye=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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