Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 98
And the girl asked him, "Why art thou weeping?"--He said to her, "She has ordered me to catch her the golden hare."--"Oh, oh!" cried the she-dragon's daughter, "the berries are ripening now; only her father knows how to catch such a hare as that.
Who acts: girl, thou, house, daughter, berries, father · What happens: ask, weep, say, order, catch, cry · To what, where: house, girl, golden hare, hare · 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 (girl, thou, house, daughter), 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 asked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weeping | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 weeping | punct |
| 8 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 weeping | advmod |
| 9 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 weeping | aux |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 weeping | nsubj |
| 11 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 weeping | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 weeping | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ordered | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 ordered | punct |
| 21 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ordered | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 ordered | aux |
| 23 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | parataxis |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 ordered | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 catch | mark |
| 26 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ordered | xcomp |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 catch | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hare | det |
| 29 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hare | amod |
| 30 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 catch | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 cried | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 cried | punct |
| 35 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 40 cried | discourse |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Oh | punct |
| 37 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 35 Oh | discourse |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 Oh | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Oh | punct |
| 40 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 dragon | det |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 dragon | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 she | punct |
| 44 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 dragon | case |
| 46 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 cried | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 ripening | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 ripening | punct |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 berries | det |
| 50 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 ripening | nsubj |
| 51 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 ripening | aux |
| 52 | ripening | ripen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 cried | advcl |
| 53 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 ripening | advmod |
| 54 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 knows | punct |
| 55 | only | only | ADV | _ | 57 father | advmod |
| 56 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 father | nmod:poss |
| 57 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 knows | nsubj |
| 58 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 59 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 61 catch | advmod |
| 60 | to | to | PART | _ | 61 catch | mark |
| 61 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 knows | xcomp |
| 62 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 64 hare | det:predet |
| 63 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 hare | det |
| 64 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 catch | obj |
| 65 | as | as | ADP | _ | 66 that | case |
| 66 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 61 catch | obl |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the girl | house | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | weep in a quote | present · progressive | thou | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | house | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | order in a quote | present · perfect | girl | house | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | catch not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | girl not said here | the golden hare | girl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary hare=Theme | |||
| 6 | cry speech: express | past | the she dragon's daughter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | ripen in a quote | present · progressive | the berries | now | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | know in a quote | present | girl's father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | catch in a quote | to-infinitive | girl's father not said here | such hare | as that | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme |
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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