Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 2

The old man worked in the fields as a pitch-burner, while the old woman sat at home and spun flax.

Who acts: old man, old woman · What happens: work, sit, spin · To what, where: home, flax

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, old woman), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 fields	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fields	det
7	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worked	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	12 burner	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 burner	det
10	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burner	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 pitch	punct
12	burner	burner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 sat	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 home	case
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spun	cc
22	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
23	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spun	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	work	past	the old man			as a pitch burner; in the fields	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=Theme
2	sit	past	the old woman		home		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location
3	spin	past	the old woman not said here	flax			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=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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