Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 34
Plant this grain of corn, and out of it will grow up a willow-tree, and whatever thou dost want, go to this willow-tree and ask, and thou shalt have thy heart's desire."
Who acts: you, thou, heart · What happens: plant, grow up, do, want, go, ask · To what, where: grain, willow tree, desire
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 (you, thou, heart), 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 | Plant | plant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 grain | det |
| 3 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Plant | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 corn | case |
| 5 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grain | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grow | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grow | cc |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grow | obl |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 grow | aux |
| 12 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Plant | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 grow | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 15 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 willow | punct |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grow | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 whatever | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 whatever | cc |
| 20 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Plant | parataxis |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 dost | nsubj |
| 22 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 23 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 dost | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 want | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 tree | det |
| 28 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tree | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 willow | punct |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 ask | cc |
| 32 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 go | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 have | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 have | cc |
| 35 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 have | nsubj |
| 36 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 37 have | aux |
| 37 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Plant | parataxis |
| 38 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 heart | nmod:poss |
| 39 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 desire | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 heart | case |
| 41 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 have | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Plant | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Plant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | imperative | you not said here | this grain of corn | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow up | future | a willow tree | grain | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | want | infinitive | thou not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | infinitive | thou not said here | this willow tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | thou not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | have | shall | thou | thy heart's desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 8 | desire | thy heart | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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