Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 44

And now," said Oh, "take my labourer into the courtyard that he may chop wood and draw water."

Who acts: last · What happens: say, take, chop, draw · To what, where: labourer, courtyard, wood, water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (last), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 take	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Oh	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 labourer	nmod:poss
11	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 courtyard	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 courtyard	det
14	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 chop	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 chop	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 chop	aux
18	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	advcl
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chop	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 draw	cc
21	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 chop	conj
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 draw	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past				now	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	infinitive		my labourer	the courtyard		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent labourer=Theme into courtyard=Destination
3	chop	may	last	wood			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient
4	draw	infinitive	last not said here	water			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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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