Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 122

But meanwhile they all heated iron pincers, and as soon as she had sent her tongue through into the smithy, they caught tight hold of her by the tongue, and began thumping her with hammers.

Who acts: wife, Snake · What happens: heat, send, catch, begin, thump, hold · To what, where: tongue, smithy, tight hold, wife

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Snake), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 pincers	cc
2	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	7 pincers	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pincers	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 pincers	det
5	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 pincers	amod
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pincers	compound
7	pincers	pincer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caught	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 caught	cc
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 soon	advmod
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 caught	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 sent	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sent	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sent	aux
15	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 soon	advcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tongue	nmod:poss
17	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	obj
18	through	through	ADV	_	15 sent	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 smithy	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 smithy	det
21	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caught	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 caught	nsubj
24	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pincers	parataxis
25	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hold	amod
26	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caught	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hold	nmod
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 tongue	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tongue	det
31	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caught	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 began	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 began	cc
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 caught	conj
35	thumping	thump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 began	xcomp
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 thumping	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 hammers	case
38	hammers	hammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 thumping	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pincers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	heat	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	send	past · perfect	wife	wife's tongue	the smithy	through property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
3	catch	past	Snake	tight hold of wife		by the tongue; soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	begin	past	Snake not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	thump	gerund	Snake not said here	wife		with hammers	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with hammer=Instrument
6	hold			wife			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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