Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 56

So they lived in their hut by the sea, and one day the sister went down to the sea to wash her bed-linen and her body-linen in the blue waters.

Who acts: hounds, sister · What happens: live, go down, wash · To what, where: hut, bed linen, blue waters

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: who acts (hounds, sister), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hut	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hut	nmod:poss
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl:unmarked
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sister	det
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 sea	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sea	det
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 wash	mark
22	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 went	advcl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 linen	nmod:poss
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 linen	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 bed	punct
26	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wash	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 linen	cc
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 linen	nmod:poss
29	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 linen	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 body	punct
31	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 linen	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 waters	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 waters	det
34	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 waters	amod
35	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wash	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	hounds = hound		hounds's hut		by the sea	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location
2	go down	past	the sister			day	to the sea; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	wash	to-infinitive	the sister not said here	sister's bed linen and sister's body linen	the blue waters			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=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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