Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 91

Then they covered it up and smoothed it down, and turned into their own little hut.

Who acts: peasants · What happens: cover up, smooth down, turn · To what, where: ditch, own little hut

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (peasants), 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 covered	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 covered	nsubj
3	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 covered	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 covered	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smoothed	cc
7	smoothed	smooth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 smoothed	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 smoothed	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turned	cc
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	17 hut	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hut	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hut	amod
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hut	amod
17	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	cover up	past	peasants = peasant	ditch		then	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
2	smooth down	past	peasants = peasant not said here	ditch			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	turn	past	peasants = peasant not said here		peasants's own little hut		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hut=Trajectory

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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