Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 114
Then he gave him his first task: "In my barn are three hundred ricks of corn; by the morning light thou shalt have threshed and sifted them so that stalk lies by stalk, chaff by chaff, and grain by grain."
Who acts: suite, barn, morning light, stalk · What happens: give, be, thresh, sift, lie, task · To what, where: first task, Prince, hundred ricks, thou, tasks
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (suite, barn, morning light, stalk), 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 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 task | nmod:poss |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 task | amod |
| 7 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 ricks | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 barn | punct |
| 10 | In | in | ADP | _ | 12 barn | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 barn | nmod:poss |
| 12 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ricks | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ricks | cop |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 ricks | nummod |
| 16 | ricks | rick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 corn | case |
| 18 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ricks | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 threshed | punct |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 light | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 light | det |
| 22 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 light | compound |
| 23 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 threshed | obl |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 threshed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 27 threshed | aux |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 threshed | aux |
| 27 | threshed | thresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sifted | cc |
| 29 | sifted | sift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 threshed | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sifted | obj |
| 31 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 34 lies | mark |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 stalk | det |
| 33 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lies | nsubj |
| 34 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sifted | advcl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 stalk | case |
| 36 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lies | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 chaff | punct |
| 38 | chaff | chaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stalk | conj |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 chaff | case |
| 40 | chaff | chaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 chaff | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 grain | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 grain | cc |
| 43 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 grain | case |
| 45 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | suite | suite's first task | Prince | then | by grain; grain obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient task=Theme | |
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | my barn | hundred ricks | of corn | tree rules | |||
| 3 | thresh in a quote | shall · perfect · passive | the morning light | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sift in a quote | past | the morning light not said here | tasks = task | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | lie in a quote | present | that stalk | by stalk and chaff by chaff | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stalk=Location | ||||
| 6 | task | suite | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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