Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 26

Then the General placed his men in three strong rows all round the house so as not to let the Iron Wolf get in; and no sooner had the young people sat down upon the bridal bench, than, sure enough, the Iron Wolf came running up.

Who acts: General, Iron Wolf, young people · What happens: place, not let, get in, have, sit down, come · To what, where: men, three strong rows, bridal bench

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General, Iron Wolf, young people), 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	4 placed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 General	det
3	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 placed	nsubj
4	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 men	nmod:poss
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 placed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 rows	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 rows	nummod
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rows	amod
10	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 placed	obl
11	all	all	ADV	_	14 house	advmod
12	round	round	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obl
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 let	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 let	mark
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 let	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 let	mark
19	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Wolf	det
21	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Wolf	compound
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 get	nsubj
23	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 let	parataxis
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 sooner	det
28	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 had	advmod
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sat	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 people	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 people	amod
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sat	nsubj
33	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	conj
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 sat	advmod
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 bench	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bench	det
37	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bench	amod
38	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sat	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sure	punct
40	than	than	ADP	_	42 sure	case
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sure	punct
42	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sat	parataxis
43	enough	enough	ADV	_	42 sure	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 came	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Wolf	det
46	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Wolf	compound
47	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 came	nsubj
48	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 sure	parataxis
49	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 came	advcl
50	up	up	ADP	_	49 running	compound:prt
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	the General	bridegroom's men	three strong rows	then	round the house	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in row=Destination
2	not let	to-infinitive	the General not said here					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	get in	present	the Iron Wolf					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	the young people not said here				soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sit down	past	the young people		the bridal bench		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bench=Location
6	come	past	the Iron Wolf					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	run up	gerund	the Iron Wolf not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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