--- title: Come now and sit upon me!"--"Nay, but," said the man, "what if some… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Come now and sit upon me!"--"Nay, but," said the man, "what if some evil befall me?"--"Sit on me, I say!" cried the eagle. Who acts: you, evil, I. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/) / 37 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 37 Come now and sit upon me!"--"Nay, but," said the man, "what if some evil befall me?"--"Sit on me, I say!" cried the eagle. **Who acts:** you, evil, I · **What happens:** come, sit, say, befall, cry · **To what, where:** man, me, eagle · **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 (you, evil, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:24:37 # text = Come now and sit upon me!"--"Nay, but," said the man, "what if some evil befall me?"--"Sit on me, I say!" cried the eagle. 1 Come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 sit sit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 upon upon ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Nay nay INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 25 obj _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 befall befall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Sit sit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 39 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | now | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | upon me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon i=Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | the man | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **befall** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | some evil | me | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | on me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on i=Location | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | | the eagle | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Topic | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/38/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/)