Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 48

Then Oh took the ashes and scattered them to the four winds, but a single piece of burnt coal fell from out of the ashes, and this coal he sprinkled with living water, whereupon the labourer immediately stood there alive again and somewhat handsomer and stronger than before.

Who acts: single piece, coal, labourer · What happens: take, scatter, fall, sprinkle, stand · To what, where: ashes

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 (single piece, coal, labourer), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 took	discourse
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ashes	det
5	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 scattered	cc
7	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scattered	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 winds	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 winds	det
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 winds	nummod
12	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scattered	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fell	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 fell	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 piece	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 piece	amod
17	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fell	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 coal	case
19	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 coal	amod
20	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piece	nmod
21	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	26 ashes	case
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 ashes	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 ashes	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ashes	det
26	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fell	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sprinkled	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sprinkled	cc
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 coal	det
30	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sprinkled	nsubj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sprinkled	nsubj
32	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 water	case
34	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 water	amod
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sprinkled	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stood	punct
37	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	41 stood	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 labourer	det
39	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stood	nsubj
40	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	41 stood	advmod
41	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 stood	advmod
43	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 stood	xcomp
44	again	again	ADV	_	41 stood	advmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 handsomer	cc
46	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	47 handsomer	advmod
47	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 stood	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 stronger	cc
49	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 handsomer	conj
50	than	than	ADP	_	51 before	case
51	before	before	ADV	_	47 handsomer	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		the ashes		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme
2	scatter	past		ashes = ash			to the four winds	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	fall	past	a single piece of burnt coal		the ashes			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ash=Initial_Location
4	sprinkle	past	this coal				with living water	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with water=Theme
5	stand	past	the labourer		there	again	alive, immediately, whereupon property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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