Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 85

But no! the Soldier stuck on tight, and thumped her over the head like anything with the aspen cudgel, and went on treating her with a taste of the cudgel until he knocked her off her feet, and then pitched into her as she lay on the ground, gave her another half-dozen blows or so, and at last beat her to death.

Who acts: Tprru, mare · What happens: stick, thump, go, treat, knock, pitch · To what, where: Soldier, tight, head, mare, ground, half dozen blows

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tprru, mare), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 thumped	cc
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 Soldier	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Soldier	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Soldier	det
5	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thumped	obl
6	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Soldier	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 tight	case
8	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stuck	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thumped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thumped	cc
11	thumped	thump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thumped	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 head	det
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thumped	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 anything	case
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 head	nmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 cudgel	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cudgel	det
20	aspen	aspen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cudgel	amod
21	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 anything	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thumped	conj
25	on	on	SCONJ	_	26 treating	mark
26	treating	treat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 went	advcl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 treating	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 taste	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 taste	det
30	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 treating	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 cudgel	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cudgel	det
33	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taste	nmod
34	until	until	SCONJ	_	36 knocked	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 knocked	nsubj
36	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 went	advcl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 knocked	obj
38	off	off	ADP	_	40 feet	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 feet	nmod:poss
40	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 knocked	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 pitched	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 pitched	cc
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 pitched	advmod
44	pitched	pitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thumped	conj
45	into	into	ADP	_	46 her	case
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 pitched	obl
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 lay	mark
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 lay	nsubj
49	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 pitched	advcl
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 ground	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 ground	det
52	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lay	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 gave	punct
54	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 lay	conj
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 gave	iobj
56	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	60 blows	det
57	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	60 blows	compound
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 dozen	punct
59	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	60 blows	nummod
60	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 gave	obj
61	or	or	CCONJ	_	62 so	cc
62	so	so	ADV	_	60 blows	conj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 beat	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 beat	cc
65	at	at	ADP	_	66 last	case
66	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 beat	obl
67	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thumped	conj
68	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 beat	obj
69	to	to	ADP	_	70 death	case
70	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 beat	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle		the Soldier not said here		tight			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on tight=Destination
2	thump	past		the Soldier		the head like anything			vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient over head=Location
3	go	past							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	treat	gerund			mare			with a taste of the cudgel	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with taste=Theme
5	knock	past	Tprru	mare				off mare's feet	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient off foot=Co-Patient
6	pitch	past					then	into mare	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into she=Destination
7	lie	past	mare			the ground			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
8	give	past	mare not said here	another half dozen blows	mare				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient blow=Theme
9	beat	past		mare	death	last			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to death=Recipient
10	taste			the cudgel					nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=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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