Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 91

But the bride besought the old woman till she had her desire, and the old woman hid her behind a huge chest.

Who acts: bride, old woman · What happens: beseech, have, hide, desire · To what, where: old woman, desire, bride, huge chest

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 (bride, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 besought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bride	det
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 besought	nsubj
4	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 besought	obj
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 besought	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 desire	nmod:poss
12	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hid	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hid	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hid	nsubj
18	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 besought	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hid	obj
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 chest	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 chest	det
22	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chest	amod
23	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hid	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 besought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	beseech	past	the bride	the old woman		tree rules
2	have	past	bride	bride's desire		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient
3	hide	past	the old woman	bride	a huge chest	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient behind chest=Location
4	desire		bride			nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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