Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 17
Then she came out, but no sooner had she done so, than he threw the cord around her and began flogging her. "
Who acts: master, fire · What happens: come out, do, throw, begin, flog · To what, where: cord, master
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, fire), 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 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 done | cc |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 sooner | det |
| 8 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 done | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 done | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 threw | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | nsubj |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cord | det |
| 18 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 threw | obj |
| 19 | around | around | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 threw | conj |
| 23 | flogging | flog | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 began | xcomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 flogging | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | master | then | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | master | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | fire | the cord | around master | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cord=Theme around she=Destination | |||
| 4 | begin | past | fire not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | flog | gerund | fire not said here | master | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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