Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 10

For they had just slain a bullock, and on the ground where they had slain it there sprang up a whitethorn-tree, so lovely that it may be told of in tales, but neither imagined nor divined.

Who acts: boar · What happens: slay, spring up, tell, imagine, divine · To what, where: bullock, ground, whitethorn tree, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boar), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 slain	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slain	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slain	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 slain	advmod
5	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 sprang	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bullock	det
7	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slain	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 slain	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 slain	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slain	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 slain	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slain	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 slain	aux
16	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 slain	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slain	obj
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 slain	advmod
19	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 sprang	compound:prt
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tree	det
22	whitethorn	whitethorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tree	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 whitethorn	punct
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sprang	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lovely	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 lovely	advmod
27	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sprang	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 told	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	nsubj:pass
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 told	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 told	aux:pass
32	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 lovely	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 tales	case
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 tales	case
35	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 told	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 imagined	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 imagined	cc
38	neither	neither	ADV	_	39 imagined	advmod
39	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sprang	parataxis
40	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	41 divined	cc
41	divined	divine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 imagined	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slay	past · perfect	boar	a bullock			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullock=Patient
2	slay	past · perfect	boar	bullock	the ground; there		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	spring up	past		a whitethorn tree			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	may · passive		tree		of tales	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	imagine	participle				neither property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	divine	participle					tree rules

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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