Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 143

Then the husband said to her, "Wife, spread a cloth upon the floor."

Who acts: husband, Wife · What happens: say, spread · To what, where: wife, cloth, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, Wife), 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	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 husband	det
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spread	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 spread	punct
9	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spread	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Wife	punct
11	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cloth	det
13	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spread	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 floor	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spread	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 spread	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the husband		wife		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	spread in a quote	infinitive	Wife	a cloth		the floor			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme upon floor=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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