Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 112

[88] Then he jerked away at the rope, and his brothers began to haul it up.

Who acts: 88, brothers · What happens: jerk away, begin, haul up · To what, where: hold

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (88, brothers), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 88	punct
2	88	88	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 jerked	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 88	punct
4	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 jerked	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 jerked	nsubj
6	jerked	jerk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 jerked	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 rope	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rope	det
10	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jerked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brothers	nmod:poss
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jerked	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 haul	mark
17	haul	haul	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 haul	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 haul	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 jerked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	jerk away	past	88		then	at the rope; away property	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at rope=Theme
2	begin	past	Prince's brothers				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	haul up	to-infinitive	Prince's brothers not said here	hold			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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