Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 68

And then they began to fire with their guns and cannons, and they fired so many balls that the bodies of the two Cossacks were quite covered by them.

Who acts: heralds · What happens: begin, fire, cover · To what, where: fire, many balls, bodies

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 (heralds), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fire	mark
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 guns	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 guns	nmod:poss
9	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fire	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cannons	cc
11	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 guns	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fired	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fired	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fired	nsubj
15	fired	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 many	advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 balls	amod
18	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fired	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 covered	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bodies	det
21	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 covered	nsubj:pass
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 Cossacks	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Cossacks	det
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 Cossacks	nummod
25	Cossacks	Cossack	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 bodies	nmod
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 covered	aux:pass
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 covered	advmod
28	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 balls	acl:relcl
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 covered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	heralds = herald	fire	then	with heralds's guns and cannons	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality with gun=Subeventuality
2	fire	past	heralds = herald	many balls			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
3	cover	past · passive	heralds = herald	the bodies of the two Cossacks			tree rules

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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