Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 78
Now near to him there was a post, and on this post was the dragon's starveling daughter.
Who acts: post · What happens: be · To what, where: starveling daughter, post
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 (post), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 near | advmod |
| 2 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 was | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 near | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 post | det |
| 8 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 daughter | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 daughter | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 post | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 post | det |
| 13 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 daughter | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 daughter | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dragon | det |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 dragon | case |
| 18 | starveling | starveling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 daughter | compound |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 post | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a post and the dragon's starveling daughter | there | near property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a post and the dragon's starveling daughter not said here | the dragon's starveling daughter | this post | tree rules |
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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