Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 143

But the damsel answered never a word, but began to knead more cakes, and made a cock-dove and a hen-dove out of the dough and put them down on the ground, and they became alive.

Who acts: damsel, fish · What happens: answer, begin, knead, make, put down, become · To what, where: word, more cakes, cock dove, dough, cakes, ground

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsel, fish), 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 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 damsel	det
3	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 word	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 knead	mark
12	knead	knead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 cakes	amod
14	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 knead	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dove	det
19	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dove	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 cock	punct
21	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dove	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dove	det
24	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dove	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 hen	punct
26	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dove	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 dough	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 dough	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dough	det
30	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 put	cc
32	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 put	obj
34	down	down	ADP	_	32 put	compound:prt
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 ground	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 became	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 became	cc
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 became	nsubj
41	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
42	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 became	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the damsel	a word			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
2	begin	past	the damsel not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	knead	to-infinitive	the damsel not said here	more cakes			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent cake=Material
4	make	past		a cock dove and a hen dove	the dough		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dove=Product
5	put down	infinitive		cakes = cake	the ground		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on ground=Destination
6	become	past	fish			alive property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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