Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 56
They flew on and on till they came to the eagle's brother, and the archer said just the same to him as he had said to the eagle's uncle, and still he didn't get the egg.
Who acts: bones, archer, eagle · What happens: fly, come, say, not get · To what, where: eagle, uncle, egg · 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 (bones, archer, eagle), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 flew | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 on | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 brother | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eagle | det |
| 11 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 eagle | case |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 archer | det |
| 17 | archer | archer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 same | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 same | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | obl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 said | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | aux |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 said | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 uncle | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 eagle | det |
| 30 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 eagle | case |
| 32 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 get | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 get | cc |
| 35 | still | still | ADV | _ | 39 get | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 get | nsubj |
| 37 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 get | aux |
| 38 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 get | advmod |
| 39 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 flew | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 egg | det |
| 41 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 get | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | bones = bone | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | bones = bone | to the eagle's brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the archer | eagle | same property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | eagle | the eagle's uncle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to uncle=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | not get | past · do-support | eagle | the egg | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus |
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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