Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 80
The dragon has bidden me do something I can never, never do; and what is more, she has bidden me do it in a single night."--"What is it, pray?" asked the dragon's daughter.
Who acts: me, I · What happens: bid, do, not do, be, pray, ask · To what, where: dragon, something, weeping, daughter · 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 (me, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bidden | aux |
| 4 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bidden | ccomp |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 do | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 never | punct |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 do | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 something | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 more | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 more | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 more | cop |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 41 asked | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bidden | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bidden | aux |
| 22 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 more | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 bidden | obj |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 bidden | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 night | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 night | det |
| 28 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 night | amod |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 more | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 more | punct |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 it | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 it | punct |
| 34 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 it | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 it | cop |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 more | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pray | punct |
| 38 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 more | advcl |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 more | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 more | punct |
| 41 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bidden | parataxis |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 dragon | det |
| 43 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 dragon | case |
| 45 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 asked | iobj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | present · perfect · passive | the dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | present | me | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bid | present · perfect · passive | dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | infinitive | weeping | night | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | weeping | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | pray | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 9 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the dragon's daughter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient |
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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