Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 149

Ten of them are holding him by the beard with pincers, the others are thundering away at his ribs with their hammers.

Who acts: Ten, others · What happens: hold, thunder away · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ten, others), 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	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 holding	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ten	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 holding	aux
5	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 holding	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 beard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beard	det
9	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 pincers	case
11	pincers	pincer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 beard	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thundering	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 others	det
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thundering	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thundering	aux
16	thundering	thunder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 holding	conj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 thundering	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 ribs	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ribs	nmod:poss
20	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thundering	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 hammers	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hammers	nmod:poss
23	hammers	hammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thundering	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 holding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present · progressive	Ten of smiths	man				by the beard with pincers	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by beard=Location
2	thunder away	present · progressive	the others					with smiths's hammers; at man's ribs; away property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at rib=Stimulus

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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