Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 85
Then she went to the field, and before one could whistle she had cleaned it of weeds and harrowed it and sown it with wheat, and by dawn she had reaped the wheat and cooked the roll and brought it to him, and said, "Now, take it to her hut and put it on her table."
Who acts: Promise, one · What happens: go, whistle, clean, harrow, sown, reap · To what, where: field, Promise, roll, wheat, hut, table · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Promise, one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whistle | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 whistle | cc |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 whistle | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 whistle | aux |
| 12 | whistle | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cleaned | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cleaned | aux |
| 15 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 whistle | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cleaned | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 weeds | case |
| 18 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cleaned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 harrowed | cc |
| 20 | harrowed | harrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 harrowed | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sown | cc |
| 23 | sown | sown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 harrowed | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sown | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 wheat | case |
| 26 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sown | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 reaped | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 reaped | cc |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 dawn | case |
| 30 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reaped | obl |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 reaped | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 reaped | aux |
| 33 | reaped | reap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 sown | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wheat | det |
| 35 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reaped | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 cooked | cc |
| 37 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 reaped | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 roll | det |
| 39 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cooked | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 brought | cc |
| 41 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 cooked | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 brought | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 brought | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 said | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 said | cc |
| 47 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 take | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 take | punct |
| 50 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 take | advmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 Now | punct |
| 52 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 said | ccomp |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 take | obj |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 56 hut | case |
| 55 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 hut | nmod:poss |
| 56 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 take | obl |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 put | cc |
| 58 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 take | conj |
| 59 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 put | obj |
| 60 | on | on | ADP | _ | 62 table | case |
| 61 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 table | nmod:poss |
| 62 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 put | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 52 take | punct |
| 64 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Promise | the field | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | whistle | could | one | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | clean | past · perfect | Promise | field | of weeds | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme of weed=Source | |||
| 4 | harrow | past | Promise not said here | field | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sown | infinitive | Promise not said here | field | with wheat | tree rules | |||
| 6 | reap | past · perfect · passive | Promise | dawn | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | cook | past | the roll | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent roll=Patient | |||||
| 8 | bring | past | wheat | roll | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination | ||||
| 9 | say speech: assert | past | Promise not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | take in a quote | infinitive | wheat | Promise's hut | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to hut=Destination | |||
| 11 | put in a quote | infinitive | wheat | Promise's table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on table=Destination |
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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