Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 110

"Kinswoman dear, do please wet the firewood instead of making it burn; and fetch the water for the bath in a sieve."

Who acts: you, firewood · What happens: wet, make, burn, fetch · To what, where: firewood, water, sieve

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, firewood), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
2	Kinswoman	kinswoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dear	compound
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wet	csubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
5	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 wet	aux
6	please	please	INTJ	_	7 wet	discourse
7	wet	wet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 firewood	det
9	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wet	obj
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 making	mark
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 wet	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 making	obj
14	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 making	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 fetch	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fetch	cc
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 wet	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fetch	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 bath	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bath	det
22	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fetch	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 sieve	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sieve	det
25	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fetch	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wet	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wet in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the firewood			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent firewood=Patient
2	make in a quote	gerund	you not said here	firewood			tree rules
3	burn in a quote	infinitive	firewood not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch in a quote	infinitive		the water	a sieve	for the bath	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme for bath=Source

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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