Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 2

They had a field all to themselves, which they sowed with wheat, and when the wheat grew up they divided it between them, when they found that there was one grain over!

Who acts: birds, wheat · What happens: have, sow, grow up, divide, find, be · To what, where: field, birds, wheat

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 (birds, wheat), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 themselves	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 themselves	case
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sowed	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sowed	nsubj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sowed	nsubj
11	sowed	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 wheat	case
13	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sowed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 divided	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 divided	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 grew	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wheat	det
18	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grew	nsubj
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 divided	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 grew	compound:prt
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 divided	nsubj
22	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 divided	obj
24	between	between	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 divided	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 found	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 found	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 found	nsubj
29	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 divided	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 was	mark
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 found	advcl
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 grain	nummod
34	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 over	obl:unmarked
35	over	over	ADV	_	32 was	advmod
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	birds = bird	a field	birds = bird			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient
2	sow	past					with wheat	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wheat=Theme
3	grow up	past	the wheat					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	divide	past	birds = bird	wheat			between them = they	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	find	past	birds = bird					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	birds = bird not said here			there	over property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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