Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 18

But the wood that he had cut was rotten and very very dry, so that it burned most fiercely, and he took and sprinkled it with water, and sprinkled it again and again, so that it might not burn too much.

Who acts: Tsar, wood · What happens: cut, be, burn, take, sprinkle, not burn · To what, where: wood

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 (Tsar, wood), 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	_	9 rotten	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wood	det
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rotten	nsubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 cut	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cut	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cut	aux
7	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 wood	acl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rotten	cop
9	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dry	cc
11	very	very	ADV	_	13 dry	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 dry	advmod
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rotten	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 burned	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 burned	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 burned	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 burned	nsubj
18	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rotten	parataxis
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 fiercely	advmod
20	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	18 burned	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 burned	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sprinkled	cc
26	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sprinkled	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 water	case
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sprinkled	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sprinkled	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sprinkled	cc
32	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sprinkled	obj
34	again	again	ADV	_	32 sprinkled	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 again	cc
36	again	again	ADV	_	34 again	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 burn	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	43 burn	advmod
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 burn	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 burn	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 burn	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 burn	advmod
43	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 took	advcl
44	too	too	ADV	_	45 much	advmod
45	much	much	ADV	_	43 burn	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 rotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past · perfect	Tsar	the wood not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Product
2	is	past	the wood			rotten property	tree rules
3	be		the wood not said here				tree rules
4	burn	past	wood			fiercely property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	past	Tsar				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	sprinkle	past	Tsar not said here	wood		with water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with water=Theme
7	sprinkle	past	Tsar not said here	wood	again		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	not burn	might	wood				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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