---
title: Let the step-mother sit in the tee, and kindle the fire for my fathe… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the step-mother sit in the tee, and kindle the fire for my father; And the cold, cruel winter shall be a feast-time instead of a famine." " Who acts: you, cold cruel winter. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its dependency 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/13/90/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [The Feast of the Virgins., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/13/) / 90

# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 90

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Let the step-mother sit in the tee, and kindle the fire for my father; And the cold, cruel winter shall be a feast-time instead of a famine." "

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, cold cruel winter · **What happens:** let, kindle, be · **To what, where:** mother sit, tee, fire, feast time

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cold cruel winter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:13:90
# text = Let the step-mother sit in the tee, and kindle the fire for my father; And the cold, cruel winter shall be a feast-time instead of a famine." "
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sit	sit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tee	tee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	kindle	kindle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
31	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	34	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the mother sit |  | the tee |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sit=Theme |
| 2 | **kindle** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  | for my father | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for father=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | the cold cruel winter | a feast time |  |  |  | instead a famine | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/13/89/)
- next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/13/91/)
- ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/13/)