Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 115

He had no power to resist; he let go with his hands, and tugged and tugged till the rope that held him grew slacker and slacker, and then he went dancing round and round the pillar at a furious rate, with the rope chafing his hands and feet all the time.

Who acts: parson, rope · What happens: have, resist, let, go, tug, hold · To what, where: power, parson, slacker, pillar, furious rate, hands

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parson, rope), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 power	det
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 resist	mark
6	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 power	acl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	nsubj
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tugged	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tugged	cc
16	tugged	tug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tugged	cc
18	tugged	tug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 grew	advcl
19	till	till	ADP	_	21 rope	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rope	det
21	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tugged	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 held	nsubj
23	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rope	acl:relcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 held	obj
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tugged	conj
26	slacker	slacker	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grew	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 slacker	cc
28	slacker	slacker	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slacker	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 went	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 went	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
34	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 went	xcomp
35	round	round	ADV	_	34 dancing	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 round	cc
37	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 dancing	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pillar	det
39	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 round	obj
40	at	at	ADP	_	43 rate	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 rate	det
42	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 rate	amod
43	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 round	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 rope	punct
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 rope	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 rope	det
47	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 round	obl
48	chafing	chafe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 rope	acl
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 hands	nmod:poss
50	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 chafing	obj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 feet	cc
52	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 hands	conj
53	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 time	det:predet
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 time	det
55	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 chafing	obl:unmarked
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	parson	no power				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	resist	to-infinitive	parson not said here	no power not said here				tree rules
3	let	past	parson					tree rules
4	go	infinitive	parson not said here				with parson's hands	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with hand=Beneficiary
5	tug	participle						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	tug	participle				till the rope		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
7	hold	past	the rope	parson				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	grow	past		slacker and slacker				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slacker=Theme
9	go	past	parson			then		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	dance	gerund	parson not said here				round property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	round	infinitive	parson not said here	the pillar	a furious rate		with the rope	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pillar=Patient with rope=Instrument
12	chafe	gerund	the rope not said here	parson's hands and feet		time		vn hurt-40.8.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=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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