Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 147

And the youth said to himself, "Why should I not pick up the feather when it shines so brightly even from afar?"

Who acts: youth, feather · What happens: say, not pick up, shine · To what, where: youth, feather, afar · 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 (youth, feather), 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 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pick	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 pick	punct
9	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 pick	advmod
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 pick	aux
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 pick	nsubj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 pick	advmod
13	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 pick	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 feather	det
16	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pick	obj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 shines	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 shines	nsubj
19	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pick	advcl
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 brightly	advmod
21	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	19 shines	advmod
22	even	even	ADV	_	24 afar	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 afar	case
24	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shines	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 pick	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the youth		youth			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not pick up in a quote	should	the youth = youth	the feather				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic
3	shine in a quote	present	feather			afar	brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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