Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 39
Keep a good fire burning and get ready the dinner, and make everything in the house neat and tidy, and have thy best frock on, and all the shirts washed against I come back from church.
Who acts: you, good fire, shirts, I · What happens: keep, burn, get, make, have on, wash · To what, where: good fire, dinner, everything, house, best frock, church
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, good fire, shirts, I), 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fire | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fire | amod |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obj |
| 5 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 get | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dinner | det |
| 10 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 14 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obl |
| 18 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 make | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tidy | cc |
| 20 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 neat | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | parataxis |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 frock | nmod:poss |
| 25 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 frock | amod |
| 26 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 have | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 washed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 washed | cc |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 shirts | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 shirts | det |
| 32 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 washed | nsubj |
| 33 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | parataxis |
| 34 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 36 come | mark |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 come | nsubj |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 washed | advcl |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 come | advmod |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 church | case |
| 39 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 come | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | a good fire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | a good fire not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | you not said here | the dinner | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | make | infinitive | you not said here | everything | the house | neat property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product | ||
| 5 | have on | present | thy best frock | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frock=Patient | |||||
| 6 | wash | past | all shirts | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | come back | present | I | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from church=Initial_Location |
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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