Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 27

The little Tsar picked up the rottenest wood he could find and flung it on the fire, to make believe he was making haste, but sprinkled it at the same time with water, so that it might not burn up too quickly, and yet the kettle soon began to boil.

Who acts: little Tsar, Tsar, haste, kettle · What happens: pick up, find, fling, make, believe, sprinkle · To what, where: rottenest wood, wood, fire, haste · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little Tsar, Tsar, haste, kettle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsar	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Tsar	amod
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
7	rottenest	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wood	acl:relcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flung	cc
13	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flung	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flung	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 picked	advcl
21	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 make	xcomp
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 making	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 making	aux
24	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 believe	ccomp
25	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 making	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sprinkled	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 sprinkled	cc
28	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sprinkled	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 time	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 time	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sprinkled	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 water	case
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 time	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 burn	punct
37	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	42 burn	mark
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 so	fixed
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 burn	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 burn	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 burn	advmod
42	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sprinkled	conj
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 burn	compound:prt
44	too	too	ADV	_	45 quickly	advmod
45	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	42 burn	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 began	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 began	cc
48	yet	yet	ADV	_	52 began	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 kettle	det
50	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 began	nsubj
51	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 began	advmod
52	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 boil	mark
54	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 began	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	the little Tsar	the rottenest wood				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Topic
2	find	could	Tsar	the rottenest wood not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Topic
3	fling	past	the little Tsar not said here	wood	the fire			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination
4	make	to-infinitive	the little Tsar not said here					tree rules
5	believe	infinitive	the little Tsar not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	make	past · progressive	Tsar	haste				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
7	sprinkle	past		haste		time		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	not burn up	might	haste				quickly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	begin	past	the kettle			yet	soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	boil	to-infinitive	the kettle not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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