Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 30

Then he, poor thing, began ladling the boiling water over himself, while she got the table ready and spread the cloth, that the serpent might eat her brother on that very table.

Who acts: Tsar, sister, serpent · What happens: begin, ladle, boil, get, spread, eat · To what, where: boiling water, table, cloth, brother

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, serpent), 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	7 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 he	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	ladling	ladle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 began	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
10	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ladling	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 ladling	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 got	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 got	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 table	det
19	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 got	obj
20	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 got	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spread	cc
22	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cloth	det
24	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spread	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eat	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 eat	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 serpent	det
28	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eat	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 eat	aux
30	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 spread	parataxis
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brother	nmod:poss
32	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eat	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 table	case
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 table	nsubj
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 table	advmod
36	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eat	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Tsar			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	ladle	gerund	Tsar not said here	the boiling water			over Tsar	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme over himself=Trajectory
3	boil	gerund						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	get	past	sister	the table			ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus
5	spread	past	Tsar not said here	the cloth				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloth=Theme
6	eat	might	the serpent	sister's brother	table			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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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