Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 70
Then the archer went home, and when he got home he found a son had been born to him there, and his son said to him, "Why didst thou give me to the old she-dragon, dad?
Who acts: archer, son, thou · What happens: go, get, find, bear, say, do · To what, where: son, archer, old she dragon · 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 (archer, son, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 archer | det |
| 3 | archer | archer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 got | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | advcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 born | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 born | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 born | aux:pass |
| 18 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 found | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 born | obl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 born | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 didst | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 didst | punct |
| 31 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 didst | advmod |
| 32 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | conj |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 give | nsubj |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 didst | ccomp |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 give | iobj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 old | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 old | det |
| 38 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 dragon | amod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 dragon | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 she | punct |
| 41 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 dad | punct |
| 43 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dragon | conj |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the archer | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | past | archer | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | find | past | archer | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bear | past · perfect · passive | a son | archer | there | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | archer's son | archer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | past | archer's son not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | give in a quote | infinitive | thou | old she dragon and dad | archer's son = son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient dragon=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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