Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 123

So he lived with her and was happy, but he caused his first wife to be tied to the tails of wild horses and torn to pieces in the endless steppes.

Who acts: Tsar · What happens: live, be, cause, tie, tear · To what, where: first wife, endless steppes

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lived	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 happy	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happy	cop
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lived	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 caused	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 caused	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 caused	nsubj
12	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 wife	amod
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caused	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 tied	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 tied	aux:pass
18	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 caused	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 tails	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tails	det
21	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tied	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 horses	case
23	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 horses	amod
24	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tails	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 torn	cc
26	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tied	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 pieces	case
28	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 torn	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 steppes	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 steppes	det
31	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 steppes	amod
32	steppes	steppe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 torn	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	Tsar			with damsel	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location
2	is	past	Tsar not said here			happy property	tree rules
3	cause	past	Tsar	Tsar's first wife			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wife=Patient
4	tie	to-infinitive · passive	Tsar not said here			to the tails of wild horses	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: to tail=Co-Patient
5	tear	participle	Tsar not said here		the endless steppes	to pieces	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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