Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 20

Then came fiends,[393] and they began to beat the rich moujik, reviling him the while, and saying:

Who acts: fiends · What happens: come, begin, beat, revile, say · To what, where: fiends, rich moujik, moujik · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (fiends), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fiends	fiend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 393	punct
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 393	punct
6	393	393	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 came	obl
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 393	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 beat	mark
12	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moujik	det
14	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 moujik	amod
15	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beat	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reviling	punct
17	reviling	revile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 began	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reviling	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 while	det
20	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reviling	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saying	cc
23	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	parataxis
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		fiends	then	393 obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fiend=Theme
2	begin	past	fiends = fiend				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	beat	to-infinitive	fiends = fiend not said here	the rich moujik			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moujik=Theme
4	revile	gerund	fiends = fiend not said here	moujik	while		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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