Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 114

They won't let her in there, but she must disguise herself as an old woman, and sit down outside in the courtyard, and spread out a cloth and lay upon it her little silver apple, and all the people will come flocking around to see the old woman who is selling apples of silver."

Who acts: WIVES, mother, people, old woman · What happens: not let, disguise, sit down, spread out, lay, come · To what, where: mother, courtyard, cloth, little silver apple, old woman, apples

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WIVES, mother, people, old woman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 there	case
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 let	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 disguise	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 disguise	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 disguise	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 disguise	aux
12	disguise	disguise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	conj
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 disguise	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 woman	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disguise	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sit	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sit	cc
20	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sit	compound:prt
22	outside	outside	ADV	_	20 sit	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 courtyard	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 courtyard	det
25	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sit	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spread	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spread	cc
28	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sit	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 spread	compound:prt
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cloth	det
31	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spread	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lay	cc
33	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 spread	conj
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 lay	obl
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 apple	nmod:poss
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 apple	amod
38	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 apple	compound
39	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lay	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 come	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 come	cc
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 people	det:predet
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 people	det
44	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 come	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 come	aux
46	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sit	conj
47	flocking	flock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 come	xcomp
48	around	around	ADV	_	47 flocking	advmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 see	mark
50	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 flocking	advcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 woman	det
52	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 woman	amod
53	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 see	obj
54	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 selling	nsubj
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 selling	aux
56	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 woman	acl:relcl
57	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 selling	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 silver	case
59	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 apples	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not let	future	WIVES = wife	mother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	disguise	must	mother	mother		as a old woman	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Destination
3	sit down	infinitive	WIVES = wife not said here		the courtyard	outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Location
4	spread out	infinitive	WIVES = wife not said here	a cloth			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloth=Theme
5	lay	infinitive	WIVES = wife not said here	mother's little silver apple	cloth		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme upon it=Destination
6	come	future	all people				tree rules
7	flock around	gerund	all people not said here			around property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	to-infinitive	all people not said here	the old woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
9	sell	present · progressive	the old woman	apples of silver			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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