Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 60
We had better give thee the lucky penny!"--But he answered, "I don't want the lucky penny, give me the magic egg!"--"Come hither then," said he, "and thou shalt have it."
Who acts: We, eagle, I, thou · What happens: have, give, answer, not want, come, say · To what, where: lucky penny, thee, magic egg, me, 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 (We, eagle, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 said | ccomp |
| 3 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 penny | det |
| 7 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 penny | amod |
| 8 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 12 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 answered | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 want | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 want | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 want | advmod |
| 20 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 penny | det |
| 22 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 penny | amod |
| 23 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 want | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 want | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 egg | det |
| 28 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 egg | compound |
| 29 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 Come | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Come | punct |
| 34 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | parataxis |
| 35 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 34 Come | advmod |
| 36 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 Come | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Come | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Come | punct |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 said | nsubj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 have | cc |
| 44 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 46 have | nsubj |
| 45 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 46 have | aux |
| 46 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 said | conj |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 have | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 46 have | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | We | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | We not said here | the lucky penny | thee | well property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient penny=Theme | ||
| 3 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | eagle | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not want | present · do-support | I | the lucky penny | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot penny=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | I not said here | the magic egg | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient egg=Theme | |||
| 6 | come | infinitive | then | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | eagle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | have | shall | thou | egg | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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