Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 22
And here thou hast a bundle of raw flax; unravel it, heckle it, wind it on to thy spindles, bleach it, weave with it, and make it into fine cloth for me by the evening!"--Then the girl drove out the heifer to graze.
Who acts: thou, girl · What happens: have, unravel, heckle, bleach, weave, make · To what, where: bundle, flax, fine cloth, heifer
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hast | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hast | advmod |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 hast | nsubj |
| 4 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bundle | det |
| 6 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hast | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 flax | case |
| 8 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flax | amod |
| 9 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bundle | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 unravel | punct |
| 11 | unravel | unravel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hast | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 unravel | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heckle | punct |
| 14 | heckle | heckle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 unravel | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heckle | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wind | punct |
| 17 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unravel | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 on | nsubj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 wind | compound |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 spindles | case |
| 21 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 spindles | nmod:poss |
| 22 | spindles | spindle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wind | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bleach | punct |
| 24 | bleach | bleach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 unravel | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bleach | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 weave | punct |
| 27 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 unravel | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 weave | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 make | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 make | cc |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 unravel | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 make | obj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 cloth | case |
| 35 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 cloth | amod |
| 36 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 make | obl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 me | case |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 make | obl |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 evening | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 evening | det |
| 41 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 make | obl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 unravel | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 unravel | punct |
| 44 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 48 drove | punct |
| 45 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 drove | advmod |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 girl | det |
| 47 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 drove | nsubj |
| 48 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 unravel | conj |
| 49 | out | out | ADP | _ | 48 drove | compound:prt |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 heifer | det |
| 51 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 drove | obj |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 graze | mark |
| 53 | graze | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 drove | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | thou | a bundle of raw flax | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient | |||
| 2 | unravel | infinitive | thou not said here | flax | wind to thy spindles obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | heckle | infinitive | thou not said here | flax | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bleach | infinitive | thou not said here | flax | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | weave | infinitive | thou not said here | with flax | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | infinitive | thou not said here | flax | fine cloth | evening | for me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material into cloth=Product for i=Beneficiary | |
| 7 | drive out in a quote | past | the girl | the heifer | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heifer=Theme | |||
| 8 | graze in a quote | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: 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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