Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 48

Then the little Tsar collected the pieces and burnt them to ashes, and the little fox rolled his brush in the ashes till it was covered with them, and then went out into the open field and scattered them to the four winds.

Who acts: little Tsar, little fox · What happens: collect, burnt, roll, cover, go out, scatter · To what, where: pieces, brush, ashes, open field

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, little fox), 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	5 collected	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tsar	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Tsar	amod
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 collected	nsubj
5	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pieces	det
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 collected	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 burnt	cc
9	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 collected	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 burnt	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 ashes	case
12	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 burnt	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rolled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rolled	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fox	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fox	amod
17	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rolled	nsubj
18	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 collected	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brush	nmod:poss
20	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rolled	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ashes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ashes	det
23	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rolled	obl
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 covered	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 covered	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 covered	aux:pass
27	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 rolled	advcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 covered	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 went	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 went	advmod
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 collected	parataxis
34	out	out	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	38 field	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 field	det
37	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 field	amod
38	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 scattered	cc
40	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 went	conj
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 scattered	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	45 winds	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 winds	det
44	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 winds	nummod
45	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 scattered	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	past	the little Tsar	the pieces		then		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
2	burnt	past	the little Tsar not said here	pieces = piece			to ashes	tree rules
3	roll	past	the little fox	fox's brush	the ashes			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent brush=Theme in ash=Trajectory
4	cover	past · passive		brush			with ashes = ash	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with they=Theme
5	go out	past			the open field	then	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	scatter	past		pieces = piece			to the four winds	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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