Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 24

Then he returned to the hut, and his sister again took up the shovel and made him poke up the fire, and when she went away he again flung water on the burning coals.

Who acts: Tsar, sister · What happens: return, take up, make, poke up, go away, fling · To what, where: shovel, Tsar, fire, water, burning coals

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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 returned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 hut	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hut	det
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	nsubj
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 sister	advmod
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 took	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shovel	det
15	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	xcomp
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 poke	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fire	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 poke	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flung	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 flung	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 went	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 flung	advcl
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flung	nsubj
30	again	again	ADV	_	31 flung	advmod
31	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flung	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 coals	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 coals	det
35	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 coals	compound
36	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 flung	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	Tsar			then	to the hut result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result
2	take up	past	Tsar's sister	the shovel				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shovel=Theme
3	make	past	Tsar's sister not said here	Tsar				tree rules
4	poke up	infinitive	Tsar not said here	the fire				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
5	go away	past	sister				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fling	past	Tsar	water	the burning coals	again		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme on coal=Destination

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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