Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 84

The Smith pulled out a small knife which he had in his pocket, and began hacking away at his hand--cut it clean off and ran away.

Who acts: Smith · What happens: pull out, have, begin, hack away, cut, clean off · To what, where: small knife, pocket, knife

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. 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 (Smith), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Smith	det
2	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 pulled	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knife	amod
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knife	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pocket	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pocket	nmod:poss
13	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
17	hacking	hack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 began	xcomp
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 hacking	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 hand	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hacking	obl
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 cut	punct
23	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 began	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cut	obj
25	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 cut	conj
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 clean	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ran	cc
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 ran	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull out	past	the Smith	a small knife			tree rules
2	have	past	smith	a small knife	smith's pocket		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
3	begin	past	the Smith not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	hack away	gerund	the Smith not said here			at smith's hand; away property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at hand=Patient
5	cut	infinitive		knife			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
6	clean off	infinitive					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	run away	past	the Smith not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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