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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

advmodnsubjiobjnmod:possamodobjpunctpunctcasenmod:possnsubjcopcompoundnummodoblcasenmodpunctcasedetcompoundoblnsubj:passauxauxconjccconjobjmarkdetnsubjadvclcaseoblpunctconjcasenmodpunctccoblcaseoblpunctpunctrootThenADVhePRONgaveVERBhimPRONhisPRONfirstADJtaskNOUN:PUNCT"PUNCTInADPmyPRONbarnNOUNareAUXthreeNUMhundredNUMricksNOUNofADPcornNOUN;PUNCTbyADPtheDETmorningNOUNlightNOUNthouPRONshaltAUXhaveAUXthreshedVERBandCCONJsiftedVERBthemPRONsoSCONJthatDETstalkNOUNliesVERBbyADPstalkNOUN,PUNCTchaffNOUNbyADPchaffNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJgrainNOUNbyADPgrainNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 gaveadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 gavensubj
3gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 gaveiobj
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 tasknmod:poss
6firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord7 taskamod
7tasktaskNOUNNumber=Sing3 gaveobj
8::PUNCT_16 rickspunct
9""PUNCT_12 barnpunct
10IninADP_12 barncase
11mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 barnnmod:poss
12barnbarnNOUNNumber=Sing16 ricksnsubj
13arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 rickscop
14threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 hundredcompound
15hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card16 ricksnummod
16ricksrickNOUNNumber=Plur3 gaveobl
17ofofADP_18 corncase
18corncornNOUNNumber=Sing16 ricksnmod
19;;PUNCT_27 threshedpunct
20bybyADP_23 lightcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 lightdet
22morningmorningNOUNNumber=Sing23 lightcompound
23lightlightNOUNNumber=Sing27 threshedobl
24thouthouPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch27 threshednsubj:pass
25shaltshallAUXStyle=Arch VerbForm=Fin27 threshedaux
26havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf27 threshedaux
27threshedthreshVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 gaveconj
28andandCCONJ_29 siftedcc
29siftedsiftVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 threshedconj
30themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 siftedobj
31sosoSCONJ_34 liesmark
32thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem33 stalkdet
33stalkstalkNOUNNumber=Sing34 liesnsubj
34lieslieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 siftedadvcl
35bybyADP_36 stalkcase
36stalkstalkNOUNNumber=Sing34 liesobl
37,,PUNCT_38 chaffpunct
38chaffchaffNOUNNumber=Sing36 stalkconj
39bybyADP_40 chaffcase
40chaffchaffNOUNNumber=Sing38 chaffnmod
41,,PUNCT_43 grainpunct
42andandCCONJ_43 graincc
43graingrainNOUNNumber=Sing3 gaveobl
44bybyADP_45 graincase
45graingrainNOUNNumber=Sing3 gaveobl
46..PUNCT_3 gavepunct
47""PUNCT_3 gavepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepastsuitesuite's first taskPrincethenby grain; grain oblvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient task=Theme
2is a in a quotepresentmy barnhundred ricksof corntree rules
3thresh in a quoteshall · perfect · passivethe morning lightthoutree rules
4sift in a quotepastthe morning light not said heretasks = taskvn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5lie in a quotepresentthat stalkby stalk and chaff by chaffvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stalk=Location
6tasksuitenom 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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