Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Sparrow and the Bush, sentence 3

(they were all alike)--"go to the water," said he.--So the sparrow went to the water and said, "Come water, quench fire, fire won't burn Tartars, Tartars won't slay people, people won't kill wolf, wolf won't eat goat, goat won't nibble bush, bush won't give good little sparrow a swing."--But the water also said, "I won't!"

Who acts: Tartars, bush, sparrow, fire, people, wolf · What happens: be, go, say, come, quench, not burn · To what, where: water, fire, people, wolf, goat, bush · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Sparrow and the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tartars, bush, sparrow, fire), 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	_	5 alike	punct
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 alike	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 alike	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 alike	advmod
5	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 alike	punct
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 alike	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 alike	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 alike	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
19	So	so	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sparrow	det
21	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 went	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Come	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Come	punct
30	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Come	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 quench	punct
33	quench	quench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 Come	conj
34	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 quench	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 burn	punct
36	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 burn	nsubj
37	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 burn	aux
38	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 burn	advmod
39	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 Come	parataxis
40	Tartars	Tartar	PROPN	Number=Plur	45 slay	nsubj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Tartars	punct
42	Tartars	Tartar	PROPN	Number=Plur	40 Tartars	conj
43	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 slay	aux
44	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 slay	advmod
45	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 burn	parataxis
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 slay	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 kill	punct
48	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 kill	nsubj
49	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 kill	aux
50	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 kill	advmod
51	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 slay	conj
52	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 kill	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 eat	punct
54	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 eat	nsubj
55	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 eat	aux
56	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 eat	advmod
57	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 slay	parataxis
58	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 eat	obj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 nibble	punct
60	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 nibble	nsubj
61	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 nibble	aux
62	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	63 nibble	advmod
63	nibble	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 eat	conj
64	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 nibble	obj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 give	punct
66	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 give	nsubj
67	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 give	aux
68	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	69 give	advmod
69	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 nibble	conj
70	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 sparrow	amod
71	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 sparrow	amod
72	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 give	obj
73	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	74 swing	det
74	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 give	obj
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 Come	punct
76	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Come	punct
77	--	--	PUNCT	_	82 said	punct
78	But	but	CCONJ	_	82 said	cc
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 water	det
80	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 said	nsubj
81	also	also	ADV	_	82 said	advmod
82	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
83	,	,	PUNCT	_	82 said	punct
84	"	"	PUNCT	_	86 wo	punct
85	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	86 wo	nsubj
86	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	82 said	ccomp
87	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	86 wo	advmod
88	!	!	PUNCT	_	86 wo	punct
89	"	"	PUNCT	_	86 wo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tartars = tartar			alike, all property	tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive			the water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	bush				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	the sparrow		the water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past	the sparrow not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come in a quote	infinitive		water			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme
7	quench in a quote	infinitive		fire			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer
8	not burn in a quote	future	fire				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	not slay in a quote	future	Tartars and Tartars	people			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
10	not kill in a quote	future	people	wolf			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme
11	not eat in a quote	future	wolf	goat			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient
12	not nibble in a quote	future	goat	bush			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Patient
13	not give in a quote	future	bush	good little sparrow			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Recipient swing=Theme
14	say speech: assert	past	the water				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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