Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 39

But for the crowds of people there, the brothers would have fallen upon and beaten each other in their wrath.

Who acts: brothers · What happens: fall, beat · To what, where: other

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 (brothers), 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	_	13 fallen	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 crowds	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crowds	det
4	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fallen	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crowds	nmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 people	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crowds	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brothers	det
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fallen	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fallen	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 fallen	aux
13	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 fallen	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beaten	cc
16	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 fallen	conj
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 other	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beaten	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 wrath	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wrath	nmod:poss
21	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beaten	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would · perfect	the brothers					for the crowds of people	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for crowd=Theme
2	beat	participle	the brothers not said here	each other				in brothers's wrath	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent other=Patient in wrath=Topic

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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