Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 87

Firm sat Katoma, with one hand grasping the mane; with the other he took from his pocket an iron chunk, and began taming the horse with it between the ears.

Who acts: Firm, one hand, Katoma · What happens: sit, grasp, take, begin, tame · To what, where: Katoma, mane, iron chunk, pocket, horse

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 (Firm, one hand, Katoma), 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	Firm	firm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hand	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hand	nummod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
8	grasping	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hand	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mane	det
10	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grasping	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 other	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 took	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 pocket	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 pocket	nmod:poss
19	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 chunk	det
21	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 chunk	amod
22	chunk	chunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
26	taming	tame	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 began	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 horse	det
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taming	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taming	obl
31	between	between	ADP	_	33 ears	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ears	det
33	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 taming	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Firm	Katoma		with one hand	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location katoma=Theme
2	grasp	gerund	one hand not said here	the mane			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mane=Stimulus
3	take	past	Katoma	a iron chunk	Katoma's pocket	with the other	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent chunk=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
4	begin	past	Katoma not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	tame	gerund	Katoma not said here	the horse		with Firm; between the ears	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Patient with it=Instrument

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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