Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 87

Then he came out of his bath, and immediately they fell upon him, cut him to pieces, put him in a sack, placed him on his horse, and let the horse go where it would.

Who acts: father, bath, horse · What happens: come out, fall, cut, put, place, let · To what, where: bath, father, sack, horse

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 (father, bath, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29672:915): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 bath	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bath	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bath	nmod:poss
7	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fell	cc
10	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	12 fell	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
16	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fell	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cut	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 pieces	case
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cut	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fell	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 sack	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sack	det
25	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 placed	punct
27	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fell	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 placed	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 horse	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 horse	nmod:poss
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 placed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 let	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 let	cc
34	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fell	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 horse	det
36	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 let	obj
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 let	xcomp
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 would	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 would	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 go	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	father	father's bath		then		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bath=Result
2	fall	past	bath				upon father; immediately property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
3	cut	past	bath not said here	father			to pieces result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result
4	put	past	bath not said here	father	a sack			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sack=Destination
5	place	past	bath not said here	father			on father's horse	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on horse=Destination
6	let	past	bath not said here	the horse				tree rules
7	go	infinitive	the horse not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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