Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 140

But the faithless wife was tied to the tails of four wild horses, and they tore her to pieces in the endless steppe.

Who acts: WIVES · What happens: tie, tore · To what, where: faithless wife, woman, endless steppe

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WIVES), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 tied	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
3	faithless	faithless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wife	amod
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tied	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tied	aux:pass
6	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 tails	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tails	det
9	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tied	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 horses	case
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 horses	nummod
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 horses	amod
13	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tails	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tore	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tore	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tore	nsubj
17	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tied	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tore	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 pieces	case
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tore	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 steppe	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 steppe	det
23	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 steppe	amod
24	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tore	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past · passive		the faithless wife				to the tails of four wild horses	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tail=Co-Patient
2	tore	past	WIVES = wife	woman		the endless steppe		to pieces	tree rules

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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