Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 60

So they cut them down firewood, and made them a roaring fire beneath a huge cauldron, and in this cauldron they began to boil their supper.

Who acts: robbers · What happens: cut down, make, roar, begin, boil · To what, where: brothers, robbers, cauldron, supper

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 cut	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
6	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fire	det
12	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 fire	amod
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
14	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	17 cauldron	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cauldron	det
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cauldron	amod
17	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 cauldron	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 cauldron	det
22	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 began	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 boil	mark
26	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 supper	nmod:poss
28	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 boil	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut down	present	robbers = robber	brothers = brother			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary firewood=Product
2	make	past		robbers = robber		beneath a huge cauldron	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary fire=Product
3	roar	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	robbers = robber		this cauldron		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	boil	to-infinitive	robbers = robber not said here	robbers's supper			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent supper=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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