Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 69

When they had finished tearing him, the little Tsar took the remains of the body and burnt them to ashes, and the little fox took up all the ashes on her tail, and scattered them to the four winds.

Who acts: bits, little Tsar, little fox · What happens: finish, tear, take, burnt, take up, scatter · To what, where: Nedviga, remains, bits, ashes, tail

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 (bits, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tearing	advcl
5	tearing	tear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 took	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tearing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tearing	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tsar	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Tsar	amod
10	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 remains	det
13	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 took	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 body	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 body	det
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remains	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 burnt	cc
18	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 burnt	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 ashes	case
21	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 burnt	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fox	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fox	amod
26	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 took	compound:prt
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 ashes	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ashes	det
31	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 took	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 tail	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 tail	nmod:poss
34	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 scattered	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 scattered	cc
37	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 scattered	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 winds	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 winds	det
41	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 winds	nummod
42	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 scattered	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	bits = bit				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	tear	gerund	the little Tsar not said here	Nedviga			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme
3	take	past	the little Tsar	the remains of the body			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Theme
4	burnt	past	the little Tsar not said here	bits = bit		to ashes	tree rules
5	take up	past	the little fox	all ashes	sword's tail		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme on tail=Destination
6	scatter	past	the little Tsar not said here	bits = bit		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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