Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 27

I went and cut me out a flute from an elder-bush, and lo! it plays of its own accord!"

Who acts: I, flute · What happens: go, cut out, play · To what, where: flute, me, elder bush

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, flute), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cut	cc
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 cut	iobj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 flute	det
8	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 bush	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bush	det
11	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bush	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 elder	punct
13	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 plays	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 plays	cc
16	lo	lo	INTJ	_	19 plays	discourse
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 lo	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 plays	nsubj
19	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 accord	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 accord	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 accord	amod
23	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 plays	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 plays	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	I					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut out	past	I not said here	a flute	me	a elder bush		tree rules
3	play	present	flute				of flute's own accord	vn performance-26.7-1 «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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