Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 13
Then, when thy master has given thee this sheaf, burn it, and a fair lady will leap out of it; take her to wife!"
Who acts: you, fair lady · What happens: give, burn, leap out, take · To what, where: master, lady, wife
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fair lady), 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 given | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 given | mark |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 master | nmod:poss |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 burn | advcl |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 given | obj |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sheaf | det |
| 10 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
| 12 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 burn | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leap | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leap | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lady | det |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lady | amod |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leap | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 leap | aux |
| 20 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 burn | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 leap | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 burn | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 wife | case |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 burn | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect · passive | thy master | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | imperative | you not said here | master | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leap out | future | a fair lady | master | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | you not said here | lady | wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to wife=Destination |
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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