Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 105

The twelve chains were taken off the horse, it began to move with an even heavy pace, while the sweat poured off it just like hail.

Who acts: hand · What happens: take off, begin, move, pour · To what, where: twelve chains, sweat, hand

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (hand), 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	3 chains	det
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 chains	nummod
3	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taken	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 move	mark
13	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	18 pace	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pace	det
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 heavy	advmod
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pace	amod
18	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 move	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hail	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 hail	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sweat	det
22	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hail	nsubj
23	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 sweat	acl
24	off	off	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 poured	obl
26	just	just	ADV	_	28 hail	advmod
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 hail	case
28	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take off	past · passive		the twelve chains		off the horse	tree rules
2	begin	past	hand			like hail	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	move	to-infinitive	hand not said here			with a heavy pace	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	pour	participle		the sweat not said here	hand		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off it=Location

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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