Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 23

The heifer began grazing, but she sat down beneath a willow-tree, and threw her flax down beside her, and began weeping with all her might.

Who acts: heifer, woman · What happens: begin, graze, sit down, throw down, weep · To what, where: willow tree, flax

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 (heifer, 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	2 heifer	det
2	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	grazing	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	14 tree	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
12	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 willow	punct
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 threw	cc
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 flax	nmod:poss
19	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obj
20	down	down	ADV	_	17 threw	advmod
21	beside	beside	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 threw	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
26	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 began	xcomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 her	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 her	det:predet
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 weeping	obl
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 weeping	aux
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the heifer				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	graze	gerund	the heifer not said here				vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	past	woman		a willow tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath tree=Location
4	throw down	past	woman not said here	woman's flax		beside woman; down property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent flax=Theme beside she=Destination
5	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	weep	might				with woman	vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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