Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 21

Take the fire-shovel and poke the fire!"

Who acts: you · What happens: take, poke · To what, where: fire shovel, fire

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 (you), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shovel	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shovel	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fire	punct
5	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 poke	cc
7	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poke	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the fire shovel					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shovel=Theme
2	poke	infinitive	you not said here	the fire					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=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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