Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 66

Then they fell upon him and thrashed him soundly, and drove him right away.

Who acts: feet · What happens: fall, thrash, drive · To what, where: man

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 (feet), 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	3 fell	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thrashed	cc
7	thrashed	thrash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thrashed	obj
9	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	7 thrashed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drove	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 drove	cc
12	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drove	obj
14	right	right	ADV	_	15 away	advmod
15	away	away	ADV	_	12 drove	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	feet = foot		then	upon man	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
2	thrash	past	feet = foot not said here	man		soundly property	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	drive	past	feet = foot not said here	man		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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