Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 65
So he stopped at the first spring he came to, and as he stooped to drink he stumbled and the magic egg was broken.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: stop, come, stoop, drink, stumble, break · To what, where: first spring, magic egg
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 spring | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spring | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 spring | amod |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spring | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | too | ADV | Typo=Yes | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stooped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stooped | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 stooped | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stooped | nsubj |
| 15 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 drink | mark |
| 17 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stooped | xcomp |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stumbled | nsubj |
| 19 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drink | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 broken | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 egg | det |
| 22 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 egg | compound |
| 23 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 broken | aux:pass |
| 25 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stumbled | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | eagle | spring | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come | past | eagle | the first spring not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spring=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stoop | past | eagle | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | eagle not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stumble | past | eagle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | break | past · passive | the magic egg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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