Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 61
When she rushes at thee, take and scatter the pears, and it will take her till cockcrow to pick them all up.
Who acts: poor, you, it · What happens: rush, take, scatter, pick up · To what, where: thee, pears, poor
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor, you, it), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 rushes | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushes | nsubj |
| 3 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 thee | case |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 rushes | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scatter | cc |
| 9 | scatter | scatter | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pears | det |
| 11 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scatter | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 cockcrow | case |
| 19 | cockcrow | cockcrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pick | mark |
| 21 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pick | obj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | up | up | ADV | _ | 21 pick | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | present | poor | thee | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thou=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | take | imperative | you not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scatter | infinitive | you not said here | the pears | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pear=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | future | it | poor | till cockcrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 5 | pick up | to-infinitive | pears = pear | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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