Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 20

Then the old man jumped up, tore off the bear, tied him up, and threw him in the cellar.

Who acts: old man · What happens: jump up, tie up, throw · To what, where: tore, bear, cellar

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 (old man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 jumped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jumped	nsubj
5	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 jumped	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tore	punct
8	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jumped	obl
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 bear	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bear	det
11	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jumped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tied	punct
13	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jumped	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tied	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 tied	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 threw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 threw	cc
18	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jumped	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 threw	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 cellar	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cellar	det
22	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 threw	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	jump up	past	the old man	tore	the bear	then	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off bear=Trajectory
2	tie up	past	the old man not said here	bear			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	throw	past		bear	the cellar		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cellar=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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