Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 13

He tore and tore, and buried his teeth in it till he found he couldn't let go again.

Who acts: bear · What happens: bury, find, not let, go · To what, where: teeth, tar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tore	cc
4	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tore	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 buried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 buried	cc
7	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tore	parataxis
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teeth	nmod:poss
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 buried	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buried	obl
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 found	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 buried	advcl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 let	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 let	advmod
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 found	ccomp
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	bury	past		bear's teeth	tar		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme in it=Destination
2	find	past	bear				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not let	could	bear				tree rules
4	go	infinitive	bear not said here			again	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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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