Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 13

But the sister said to the serpent, "Dear friend, make him get ready boiling water for himself, and we will boil him, for it does not become thee to dirty thy hands."--"Very well," said the serpent; "he shall make the boiling water ready!"

Who acts: sister, serpent, we, water · What happens: say, make, get, boil, not become, dirty · To what, where: serpent, ready boiling water, thee, hands, boiling water · 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 (sister, serpent, we, water), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sister	det
3	sister	sister	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	_	7 serpent	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 serpent	det
7	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct
10	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 friend	amod
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serpent	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	xcomp
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 water	amod
17	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 water	amod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 get	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 boil	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 boil	cc
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 boil	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 boil	aux
25	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 boil	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 become	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 become	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 become	nsubj
30	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 become	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 become	advmod
32	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 boil	advcl
33	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 become	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 dirty	mark
35	dirty	dirty	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 become	xcomp
36	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 hands	nmod:poss
37	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 dirty	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 boil	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 well	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 well	punct
42	Very	very	ADV	_	43 well	advmod
43	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 said	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 well	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 well	punct
46	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	advcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 serpent	det
48	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 said	obj
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 make	nsubj
52	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 make	aux
53	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 water	det
55	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 water	compound
56	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 make	obj
57	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 make	xcomp
58	!	!	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the sister		the serpent and Dear friend		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to serpent=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	infinitive		serpent			tree rules
3	get in a quote	infinitive	serpent not said here	ready boiling water		for serpent	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme for himself=Source
4	boil in a quote	gerund					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	boil in a quote	future	we	serpent			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	not become in a quote	present · do-support	water	thee			tree rules
7	dirty in a quote	to-infinitive	water not said here	thy hands			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
8	say speech: assert	past	the serpent			well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	make in a quote	shall	serpent	the boiling water		ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Product

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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