Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 35

He levelled his gun and--bang! he let him have it right in the paunch.

Who acts: sportsman, bang · What happens: levell, let, have · To what, where: gun, sportsman, bang, paunch

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sportsman, bang), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 levelled	nsubj
2	levelled	levell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 gun	nmod:poss
4	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 levelled	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 bang	punct
7	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 bang	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	nsubj
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 levelled	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	obj
14	right	right	ADV	_	17 paunch	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 paunch	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 paunch	det
17	paunch	paunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 levelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	levell	past	sportsman	sportsman's gun		tree rules
2	let	infinitive	bang	sportsman		tree rules
3	have	infinitive	sportsman not said here	bang	the paunch	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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