Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 33

A little longer, and I shall hold him by the horns."

Who acts: I · What happens: hold · To what, where: stream

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 little	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 longer	obl:unmarked
3	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 hold	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hold	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hold	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 hold	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hold	aux
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hold	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 horns	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horns	det
12	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hold	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hold	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	shall	I	stream				by the horns; long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by horn=Location

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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