Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 69
Then the dragon chased the ox nicely into the egg again, patched it up prettily and gave it into the man's hand.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: chase, patch up, give · To what, where: ox, egg, hand
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 (dragon), 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 | 4 chased | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chased | nsubj |
| 4 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ox | det |
| 6 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chased | obj |
| 7 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 4 chased | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 egg | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 egg | det |
| 10 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chased | obl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 egg | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 patched | punct |
| 13 | patched | patch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chased | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 patched | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 patched | compound:prt |
| 16 | prettily | prettily | ADV | _ | 13 patched | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 patched | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 hand | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 man | case |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | the dragon | the ox | the egg | then | nicely property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ox=Theme into egg=Trajectory | |
| 2 | patch up | past | the dragon not said here | ox | prettily property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | |||
| 3 | give | past | the dragon not said here | ox | the man's hand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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