Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 20

But he wouldn't listen, but beat her and beat her, and held her naked feet over the fire, and toasted and roasted her till she shrivelled right up.

Who acts: brother, master · What happens: not listen, beat, hold, toast, roast, shrivell · To what, where: master, naked feet, fire

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 (brother, master), 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	_	5 listen	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 listen	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 listen	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 listen	advmod
5	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beat	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 beat	cc
8	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 listen	parataxis
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beat	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beat	cc
11	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beat	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 beat	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 held	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 held	cc
15	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 listen	parataxis
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
17	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feet	amod
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 held	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 fire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 held	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 toasted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 toasted	cc
24	toasted	toast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 held	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 roasted	cc
26	roasted	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 toasted	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 roasted	obj
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 shrivelled	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 shrivelled	nsubj
30	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 roasted	advcl
31	right	right	ADV	_	32 up	advmod
32	up	up	ADV	_	30 shrivelled	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not listen	would	brother			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	beat	past		master		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme
3	beat	past		master		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme
4	hold	past		master's naked feet	the fire	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent foot=Theme over fire=Location
5	toast	past				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	roast	past		master		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
7	shrivell	past	master			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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