Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 51

Then he made two buckets and hung them up on the whitethorn-tree, and said to his sister, "Look now, sister! if thou weepest for me, this bucket will fill with tears, but if thou weepest for the serpent that bucket will fill with blood!"

Who acts: Tsar, thou, bucket, serpent · What happens: make, hang up, say, look, weep, fill · To what, where: two buckets, buckets, whitethorn tree, sister · 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 (Tsar, thou, bucket, 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	3 made	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 buckets	nummod
5	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hung	cc
7	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hung	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 hung	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	14 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
12	whitethorn	whitethorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 whitethorn	punct
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hung	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 sister	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sister	nmod:poss
20	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Look	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Look	punct
23	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 Look	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sister	punct
26	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Look	obl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 sister	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 weepest	mark
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 weepest	nsubj
30	weepest	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 fill	advcl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 weepest	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 weepest	punct
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 bucket	det
35	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fill	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 fill	aux
37	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Look	parataxis
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 tears	case
39	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 fill	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 weepest	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 weepest	cc
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 weepest	mark
43	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 weepest	nsubj
44	weepest	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 serpent	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 serpent	det
47	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 weepest	obl
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 fill	nsubj
49	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 fill	nsubj
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 fill	aux
51	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 serpent	acl:relcl
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 blood	case
53	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 fill	obl
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Tsar	two buckets			then		tree rules
2	hang up	past	Tsar not said here	buckets = bucket		the whitethorn tree			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on tree=Destination
3	say speech: express	past	Tsar not said here		Tsar's sister				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient clause=Topic
4	look in a quote	infinitive		sister			now		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	weep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	thou					for Tsar	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fill in a quote	future	this bucket					with tears	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tear=Instrument
7	weep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	thou					for the serpent	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	fill in a quote	future	the serpent					with blood	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blood=Instrument

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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