Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 14

So they ordered the little Tsar to go and chop wood and get the hot water ready.

Who acts: hands · What happens: order, go, chop, get · To what, where: little Tsar, wood, hot water

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 (hands), 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 ordered	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tsar	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Tsar	amod
6	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ordered	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chop	cc
10	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chop	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 get	cc
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 chop	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	order	past	hands = hand		the little Tsar		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tsar=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	hands = hand not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chop	infinitive	hands = hand not said here	wood			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient
4	get	infinitive	hands = hand not said here	the hot water		ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus

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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