Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 58
Bid them make me a stone hut, and let there be a little bed there, and a little stove and a fire to warm me, and let me be married in a fortnight!"--So they did as he desired.
Who acts: you, me, head, puss · What happens: bid, make, let, be, warm, marry · To what, where: head, me, little bed
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 (you, me, head, puss), 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 | Bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Bid | obj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bid | xcomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hut | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hut | compound |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bid | conj |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 let | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bed | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bed | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bed | amod |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obl |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 bed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stove | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stove | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stove | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stove | amod |
| 21 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bid | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fire | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fire | det |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stove | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 warm | mark |
| 26 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bid | advcl |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 warm | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 let | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 let | cc |
| 30 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bid | parataxis |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 let | obj |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 married | aux:pass |
| 33 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 let | xcomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 fortnight | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 fortnight | det |
| 36 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 married | obl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 let | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 let | punct |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 did | punct |
| 40 | So | so | ADV | _ | 42 did | advmod |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 did | nsubj |
| 42 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bid | parataxis |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 desired | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 desired | nsubj |
| 45 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 did | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | imperative | you not said here | head | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | there | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | a little bed | there | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | warm | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 6 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | marry | infinitive · passive | me not said here | fortnight | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 8 | do in a quote | past | head | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | desire in a quote | past | puss | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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