Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 57

They beat him and hauled him about most unmercifully, and then they drove him away, and off he went bellowing through the forest.

Who acts: burners, man · What happens: beat, haul, drive away, go, bellow · To what, where: man, forest

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 (burners, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hauled	cc
5	hauled	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hauled	obj
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 unmercifully	mark
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 unmercifully	nsubj
9	unmercifully	unmercifully	ADV	_	5 hauled	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drove	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drove	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 drove	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drove	nsubj
14	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hauled	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drove	obj
16	away	away	ADV	_	14 drove	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
19	off	off	ADP	_	21 went	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hauled	conj
22	bellowing	bellow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 went	xcomp
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 forest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 forest	det
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bellowing	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	burners = burner	man				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
2	haul	past	burners = burner not said here	man			unmercifully property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	drive away	past	burners = burner	man		then	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	go	past	man					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bellow	gerund	man not said here		the forest			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=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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