Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 62

Then the eagle's father rejoiced and gave him the egg, and said to him, "Take heed thou dost not break it anywhere on the road, and when thou gettest home, hedge it round and build a strong fence about it, and it will do thee good."

Who acts: father, thou, egg · What happens: rejoice, give, say, take, not break, get · To what, where: egg, eagle, heed, road, strong fence, thee · 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 (father, thou, egg), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 rejoiced	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 eagle	case
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rejoiced	nsubj
6	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rejoiced	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 egg	det
11	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rejoiced	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Take	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Take	punct
19	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
20	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Take	obj
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 break	nsubj
22	dost	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 break	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 break	advmod
24	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Take	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 break	obj
26	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 break	advmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 road	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 road	det
29	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 break	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hedge	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hedge	cc
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 gettest	advmod
33	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 gettest	nsubj
34	gettest	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 hedge	advcl
35	home	home	ADV	_	34 gettest	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gettest	punct
37	hedge	hedge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 rejoiced	parataxis
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hedge	obj
39	round	round	ADV	_	37 hedge	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 build	cc
41	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 hedge	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 fence	det
43	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 fence	amod
44	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 build	obj
45	about	about	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 fence	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 do	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 do	cc
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 do	nsubj
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 do	aux
51	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 hedge	conj
52	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	51 do	obj
53	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 do	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rejoiced	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 rejoiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rejoice	past	the eagle's father				then		tree rules
2	give	past	the eagle's father not said here	the egg	eagle				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient egg=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the eagle's father not said here		eagle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	infinitive		heed					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
5	not break in a quote	present · do-support	thou	egg		the road		anywhere property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
6	get in a quote	present	thou					home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	hedge in a quote	infinitive		egg				round property	tree rules
8	build in a quote	present		a strong fence				about egg	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fence=Product
9	do in a quote	future	egg	thee					tree rules

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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