Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 76
And the dragon said to him, "Thou must in a single night weed out this field and sow wheat in it, and reap the wheat and store it, all in this very night; and thou must bake me a roll out of this self-same wheat, and the roll must be lying ready for me on my table in the morning."
Who acts: dragon, thou, roll · What happens: say, wee out, sow, reap, store, bake · To what, where: Ivan, field, wheat, roll, dragon, same wheat · 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 (dragon, thou, roll), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 weed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 weed | punct |
| 9 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 must | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 weed | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 night | amod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 must | obl |
| 15 | weed | wee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 weed | compound:prt |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 field | det |
| 18 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 weed | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sow | cc |
| 20 | sow | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 weed | conj |
| 21 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sow | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sow | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reap | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 reap | cc |
| 26 | reap | reap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wheat | det |
| 28 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reap | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 store | cc |
| 30 | store | store | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 reap | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 store | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 night | punct |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 night | det |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 this | case |
| 35 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 all | nmod |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 night | advmod |
| 37 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reap | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 bake | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 bake | cc |
| 40 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 bake | nsubj |
| 41 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 bake | aux |
| 42 | bake | bake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 bake | obj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 roll | det |
| 45 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bake | obj |
| 46 | out | out | ADP | _ | 52 wheat | case |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 wheat | case |
| 48 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 wheat | det |
| 49 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 same | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 self | punct |
| 51 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 wheat | amod |
| 52 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bake | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 lying | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 lying | cc |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 roll | det |
| 56 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 lying | nsubj |
| 57 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 59 lying | aux |
| 58 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 59 lying | aux |
| 59 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 bake | advcl |
| 60 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 lying | xcomp |
| 61 | for | for | ADP | _ | 62 me | case |
| 62 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 60 ready | obl |
| 63 | on | on | ADP | _ | 65 table | case |
| 64 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 65 table | nmod:poss |
| 65 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 lying | obl |
| 66 | in | in | ADP | _ | 68 morning | case |
| 67 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 morning | det |
| 68 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 lying | obl |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 70 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon | Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | wee out in a quote | past | the dragon not said here | this field | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sow in a quote | present | the dragon not said here | wheat | wheat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme in it=Destination | |||
| 4 | reap in a quote | infinitive | the dragon not said here | the wheat | night | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme | |||
| 5 | store in a quote | infinitive | the dragon not said here | wheat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bake in a quote | must | thou | a roll | the dragon = dragon | this same wheat | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary roll=Product | ||
| 7 | lie in a quote | must · progressive | the roll | my table | morning | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location |
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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