Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 91
Then he again went to the fence and wept, and the maiden said to him, "Why dost thou weep?" and he told her all that the she-dragon had bidden him do. "
Who acts: Ivan, maiden, thou · What happens: go, weep, say, tell, bid, do · To what, where: fence, Ivan, maiden, 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 (Ivan, maiden, 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 fence | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fence | det |
| 7 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wept | cc |
| 9 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 weep | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 weep | punct |
| 19 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 weep | advmod |
| 20 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 weep | aux |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 weep | nsubj |
| 22 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 weep | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 weep | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 told | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 told | nsubj |
| 27 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 told | iobj |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 bidden | det:predet |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 bidden | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 dragon | det |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 dragon | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 she | punct |
| 34 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 bidden | aux |
| 36 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 do | advcl |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 bidden | obj |
| 38 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 told | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ivan | the fence | then; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fence=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | weep | past | Ivan not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the maiden | Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | weep in a quote | present · do-support | thou | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Ivan | maiden | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | bid | past · perfect · passive | the she dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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