Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 122
The oven is heated and the irons are ready; do thou go down to the brook and draw water."
Who acts: irons, thou · What happens: heat, be, go down, draw · To what, where: oven, water
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (irons, thou), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 oven | det |
| 2 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heated | aux:pass |
| 4 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ready | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 irons | det |
| 7 | irons | iron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ready | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | cop |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heated | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 go | nsubj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heated | parataxis |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 brook | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brook | det |
| 17 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 draw | cc |
| 19 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 draw | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heat | present · passive | the oven | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the irons | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go down | infinitive · do-support | thou | to the brook; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | draw | infinitive | thou not said here | water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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: «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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