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title: Keep a good fire burning and get ready the dinner, and make everythi… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep a good fire burning and get ready the dinner, and make everything in the house neat and tidy, and have thy best frock on, and all the shirts washed against I come back from church. Who acts: you, good fire, shirts, I. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper, with 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 39

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Keep a good fire burning and get ready the dinner, and make everything in the house neat and tidy, and have thy best frock on, and all the shirts washed against I come back from church.

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**Who acts:** you, good fire, shirts, I · **What happens:** keep, burn, get, make, have on, wash · **To what, where:** good fire, dinner, everything, house, best frock, church

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, good fire, shirts, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:15:39
# text = Keep a good fire burning and get ready the dinner, and make everything in the house neat and tidy, and have thy best frock on, and all the shirts washed against I come back from church.
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
34	against	against	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | a good fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | a good fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the dinner |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | everything |  | the house |  | neat *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |
| 5 | **have on** | present |  | thy best frock |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frock=Patient |
| 6 | **wash** | past | all shirts |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **come back** | present | I |  |  | church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from church=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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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