Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 33

The Warlock gnashed his teeth, howled aloud, and sprang at the Soldier--who drew his sword and began laying about him with sweeping blows.

Who acts: Warlock, Soldier · What happens: gnash, howl, spring, draw, begin, lay · To what, where: teeth, Soldier, sword

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Warlock, Soldier), 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	2 Warlock	det
2	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gnashed	nsubj
3	gnashed	gnash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teeth	nmod:poss
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gnashed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 howled	punct
7	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gnashed	conj
8	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	7 howled	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sprang	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sprang	cc
11	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gnashed	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 Soldier	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Soldier	det
14	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sprang	obl
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 drew	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 drew	nsubj
17	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Soldier	acl:relcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sword	nmod:poss
19	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drew	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drew	conj
22	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 began	xcomp
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laying	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 blows	case
26	sweeping	sweeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blows	compound
27	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 laying	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gnashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gnash	past	the Warlock	Warlock's teeth			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	howl	past	the Warlock not said here			aloud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spring	past	the Warlock not said here		the Soldier		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at soldier=Trajectory
4	draw	past	the Soldier	Warlock's sword			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5	begin	past	the Soldier not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	lay	gerund	the Soldier not said here			about Warlock; with sweeping blows	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about he=Destination

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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