Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 61

They boiled and boiled till their mess of pottage was ready, and then they all sat down round the cauldron and took out their large ladles, and were just about to fall to--in fact they were blowing their food because it was so boiling hot--when Ivan let his big millstone plump down into the middle of the cauldron, so that the pottage flew right into their eyes.

Who acts: robbers, mess, Ivan, big millstone, pottage · What happens: boil, be, sit down, take out, fall, blow · To what, where: large ladles, food, middle, eyes, pottage

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, mess, Ivan, big millstone), 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	2 boiled	nsubj
2	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 boiled	cc
4	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boiled	conj
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 ready	mark
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mess	nmod:poss
7	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ready	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 pottage	case
9	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mess	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ready	cop
11	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boiled	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 sat	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sat	nsubj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 they	det
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 boiled	parataxis
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sat	compound:prt
19	round	round	ADP	_	21 cauldron	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cauldron	det
21	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sat	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 took	compound:prt
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ladles	nmod:poss
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ladles	amod
27	ladles	ladle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 took	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fall	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fall	cc
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 fall	aux
31	just	just	ADV	_	32 about	advmod
32	about	about	ADV	_	34 fall	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 fall	mark
34	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 boiled	parataxis
35	to	to	ADP	_	34 fall	obl
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 blowing	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 fact	case
38	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 blowing	obl
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 blowing	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 blowing	aux
41	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 fall	advcl
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 food	nmod:poss
43	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 blowing	obj
44	because	because	SCONJ	_	49 hot	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 hot	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 hot	cop
47	so	so	ADV	_	49 hot	advmod
48	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 hot	amod
49	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 blowing	ccomp
50	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 let	punct
51	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	53 let	advmod
52	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 let	nsubj
53	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 hot	parataxis
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 millstone	nmod:poss
55	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 millstone	amod
56	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 plump	nsubj
57	plump	plump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 let	xcomp
58	down	down	ADV	_	57 plump	advmod
59	into	into	ADP	_	61 middle	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 middle	det
61	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 plump	obl
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 cauldron	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 cauldron	det
64	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 middle	nmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 flew	punct
66	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	70 flew	mark
67	that	that	SCONJ	_	66 so	fixed
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 pottage	det
69	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 flew	nsubj
70	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 let	conj
71	right	right	ADV	_	74 eyes	advmod
72	into	into	ADP	_	74 eyes	case
73	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	74 eyes	nmod:poss
74	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 flew	obj
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 boiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	past	robbers = robber					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	boil	participle	robbers = robber not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	robbers's mess of pottage				ready property	tree rules
4	sit down	past	robbers = robber			then	round the cauldron	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take out	past	robbers = robber not said here	robbers's large ladles				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladle=Theme
6	fall	past					about property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	blow	past · progressive	robbers = robber	robbers's food			in fact	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Patient in fact=Topic
8	boil	gerund						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	is	past	mess				hot property	tree rules
10	let	past	Ivan					tree rules
11	plump down	infinitive	Ivan's big millstone		the middle of the cauldron		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
12	fly	past	the pottage	robbers's eyes				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
13	mess		robbers = robber	pottage				nom mess «state transitive»: poss=agent of=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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