Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 141

They heard the child crying in the eagle's nest: "Oo-oo! oo-oo! oo-oo!" so they went up to the oak on which was the nest and said one to another, "Let us hew down the tree and kill the child!"--"No," replied one of them, "it were better to climb up the tree and bring him down alive."

Who acts: bandits, child, oak, one, us · What happens: hear, cry, go up, be, say, let · To what, where: child, nest, us, tree, one, eagle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bandits, child, oak, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 child	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 nest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eagle	det
8	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nest	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 eagle	case
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 oo	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 oo	punct
13	Oo	Oo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 oo	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Oo	punct
15	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 oo	punct
17	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 oo	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 oo	punct
19	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 oo	conj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 oo	punct
21	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 oo	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 oo	punct
23	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 oo	appos
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 oo	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 oo	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 went	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 oak	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 oak	det
32	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 nest	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 nest	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 nest	det
37	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 oak	acl:relcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 went	conj
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 said	nsubj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 another	case
42	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	40 one	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Let	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 Let	punct
45	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 said	ccomp
46	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 Let	obj
47	hew	hew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 Let	xcomp
48	down	down	ADP	_	47 hew	compound:prt
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 tree	det
50	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hew	obj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 kill	cc
52	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 Let	conj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 child	det
54	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 kill	obj
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 Let	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 Let	punct
57	--	--	PUNCT	_	62 replied	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 No	punct
59	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	62 replied	discourse
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 No	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 No	punct
62	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 went	parataxis
63	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 replied	obj
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 them	case
65	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 one	nmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 better	punct
67	"	"	PUNCT	_	70 better	punct
68	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 better	expl
69	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 better	cop
70	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	62 replied	parataxis
71	to	to	PART	_	72 climb	mark
72	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	70 better	csubj
73	up	up	ADP	_	72 climb	compound:prt
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 tree	det
75	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 climb	obj
76	and	and	CCONJ	_	77 bring	cc
77	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	72 climb	conj
78	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 bring	obj
79	down	down	ADP	_	77 bring	compound:prt
80	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	77 bring	xcomp
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct
82	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	bandits = bandit	the child			Oo oo and oo oo obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the child not said here			the eagle's nest		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location
3	go up	past	bandits = bandit				to the oak	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a	past	the oak	the nest				tree rules
5	say speech: express	past	one to another					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	let in a quote	infinitive		us				tree rules
7	hew down in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	the tree				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
8	kill in a quote	infinitive		the child				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
9	reply speech: assert	past		one of bandits				tree rules
10	is in a quote	past					good property	tree rules
11	climb up in a quote	to-infinitive		the tree				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
12	bring down in a quote	infinitive			eagle		alive property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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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