Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 13

He would do nothing, he would not even fetch water from the well, but lay on the stove all day long and rolled among the warm cinders.

Who acts: Heaven · What happens: do, not fetch, lay, roll · To what, where: nothing, water, well, stove, warm cinders

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 do	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fetch	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fetch	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fetch	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 fetch	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 fetch	advmod
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 do	parataxis
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fetch	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 well	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 well	det
14	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fetch	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
17	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fetch	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 stove	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stove	det
20	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl:unmarked
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 lay	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rolled	cc
25	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lay	conj
26	among	among	ADP	_	29 cinders	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cinders	det
28	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cinders	amod
29	cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rolled	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	Heaven	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	not fetch	would	Heaven	water	the well			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Source
3	lay	infinitive	Heaven not said here		the stove	day	long property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on stove=Destination
4	roll	past	Heaven not said here		the warm cinders			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among cinder=Trajectory

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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