Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 74
So Ivan lost no time in going to the dragon, and the dragon said to him, "Go to my house and do me three tasks, and if thou dost them not, I'll devour thee."
Who acts: Ivan, time, dragon, thou · What happens: lose, go, say, do, not do, devour · To what, where: Ivan, house, three tasks, dragon, tasks, 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 (Ivan, time, dragon, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 lost | advmod |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 dragon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 20 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Go | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 do | cc |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 Go | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 do | iobj |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 tasks | nummod |
| 28 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 do | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 devour | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 devour | cc |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 dost | mark |
| 32 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 dost | nsubj |
| 33 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 devour | advcl |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 dost | obj |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 dost | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dost | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 devour | nsubj |
| 38 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 devour | aux |
| 39 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lost | parataxis |
| 40 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 devour | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 devour | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 devour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Ivan | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | no time not said here | to the dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dragon=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon | Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | my house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | infinitive | three tasks | the dragon = dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | thou | tasks = task | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | devour in a quote | future | the dragon = dragon | thee | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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