Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 40

Then said the bullock to the little Tsar, "Take up the handkerchief again and wave it behind me."

What happens: say, take up, wave · To what, where: bullock, handkerchief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bullock	det
4	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 Tsar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tsar	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Tsar	amod
8	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Take	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Take	punct
11	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 Take	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 handkerchief	det
14	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Take	obj
15	again	again	ADV	_	11 Take	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wave	cc
17	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Take	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wave	obj
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wave	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 Take	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the bullock	then	to the little Tsar	tree rules
2	take up in a quote	infinitive	the handkerchief	again		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme
3	wave in a quote	present	handkerchief		behind me	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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