Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 5
Take it home, and when thou gettest there, make to thyself a cattle-pen, and make it strong; then break the egg in the middle of thy cattle-pen, and thou shalt see something.
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: take, get, make, break, see · To what, where: egg, cattle pen, middle, something
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. 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), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 gettest | advmod |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 gettest | nsubj |
| 8 | gettest | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | advcl |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 gettest | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gettest | punct |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 thyself | case |
| 13 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 11 make | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pen | det |
| 15 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pen | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 cattle | punct |
| 17 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 make | cc |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 make | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 break | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 break | advmod |
| 25 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 egg | det |
| 27 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 break | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 middle | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 middle | det |
| 30 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 break | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 pen | case |
| 32 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 pen | nmod:poss |
| 33 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pen | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 cattle | punct |
| 35 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 middle | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 see | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 see | cc |
| 38 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 see | nsubj |
| 39 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 40 see | aux |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 break | conj |
| 41 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 40 see | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | egg | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | present | thou | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | you not said here | a cattle pen | to thyself | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 4 | make | infinitive | you not said here | egg | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 5 | break | infinitive | the egg | the middle of thy cattle pen | then | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient | |||
| 6 | see | shall | thou | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
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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