Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 7

He went on till he came to an apple-tree, and beneath the apple-tree a fire was burning, and he stopped to warm himself, when an old woman came up and said to him, "Dear little gentleman! dear little gentleman! tie up that dog lest he bite me."

Who acts: brother, fire, old woman, Dear little gentleman · What happens: go on, come, burn, stop, warm, come up · To what, where: apple tree, brother, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, fire, old woman, Dear little gentleman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 tree	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
9	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 apple	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 burning	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 burning	cc
14	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	18 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
16	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tree	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 apple	punct
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burning	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burning	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 burning	aux
22	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stopped	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stopped	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stopped	nsubj
26	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 warm	mark
28	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 stopped	xcomp
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 warm	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 woman	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 woman	amod
34	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 stopped	conj
36	up	up	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 said	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 gentleman	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 gentleman	punct
43	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 gentleman	amod
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 gentleman	amod
45	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 tie	nsubj
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	49 gentleman	punct
47	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 gentleman	amod
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 gentleman	amod
49	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 gentleman	appos
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	49 gentleman	punct
51	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 said	ccomp
52	up	up	ADP	_	51 tie	compound:prt
53	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 dog	det
54	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 tie	obj
55	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	57 bite	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 bite	nsubj
57	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 tie	advcl
58	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 bite	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go on	past	brother				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	brother			a apple tree	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
3	burn	past · progressive	a fire			the apple tree	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath tree=Location
4	stop	past	brother				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	warm	to-infinitive	brother not said here	brother			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
6	come up	past	a old woman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: express	past	brother not said here		brother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
8	tie up in a quote	present	Dear little gentleman	that dog			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
9	bite in a quote	infinitive	brother	brother			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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