Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 22

So he did so, and the faggots blazed up, but when she had gone away he sprinkled them with water again, so that they might burn more slowly.

Who acts: Tsar, faggots, sister · What happens: do, blaze up, go away, sprinkle, burn · To what, where: faggots

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, faggots, sister), 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 did	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blazed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blazed	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 faggots	det
8	faggots	faggot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 blazed	nsubj
9	blazed	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 blazed	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sprinkled	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 sprinkled	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 gone	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gone	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 sprinkled	advcl
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 gone	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sprinkled	nsubj
19	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sprinkled	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 water	case
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sprinkled	obl
23	again	again	ADV	_	19 sprinkled	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 burn	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 burn	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 burn	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 burn	aux
29	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sprinkled	conj
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 slowly	advmod
31	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	29 burn	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Tsar				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	blaze up	past	the faggots				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go away	past · perfect	sister			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sprinkle	past	Tsar	faggots = faggot	again	with water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with water=Theme
5	burn	might	faggots = faggot			slowly property	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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