Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 6

He chased all the guests and relatives out of the house, threw the wedded pair into a slumber, took out two phials and an awl, pierced the hands of the bride and bridegroom with the awl, and began drawing off their blood.

Who acts: Warlock, two phials · What happens: chase, throw, wed, take out, pierce, begin · To what, where: guests, house, wedded pair, slumber, two phials, hands

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, two phials), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 guests	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guests	det
5	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chased	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 relatives	cc
7	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 guests	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 house	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chased	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pair	det
15	wedded	wed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 pair	amod
16	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 slumber	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 slumber	det
19	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 threw	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 took	compound:prt
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 phials	nummod
24	phials	phial	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 took	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 awl	cc
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 awl	det
27	awl	awl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 phials	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pierced	punct
29	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 phials	acl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hands	det
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pierced	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 bride	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bride	det
34	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hands	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bridegroom	cc
36	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bride	conj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 awl	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 awl	det
39	awl	awl	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bridegroom	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 began	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 began	cc
42	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
43	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 began	xcomp
44	off	off	ADP	_	43 drawing	compound:prt
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 blood	nmod:poss
46	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 drawing	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chase	past	Warlock	all guests and relatives	the house		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guest=Theme out house=Trajectory
2	throw	past		the wedded pair		into a slumber result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer pair=Theme into slumber=Result
3	wed	participle					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	take out	past		two phials and a awl			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phial=Theme
5	pierce	participle	two phials and a awl not said here	the hands of the bride and bridegroom with the awl			vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	draw off	gerund		bride's blood			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme

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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