Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 99

Now the hedge was a quickset hedge, and as the parson began capering about in it, he tore to shreds his cassock and his breeches, and his under-coat, and his shirt, and scratched his skin and wrenched out his beard as if he had been very badly shaved, and still the poor parson had to go on dancing in the midst of the prickly hedge till there were great weals and wounds all over his body, and the red blood began to flow.

Who acts: hedge, parson, quickset hedge, shirt, poor parson, great weals · What happens: be, begin, caper, tore, shred, scratch · To what, where: quickset hedge, cassock, coat, skin, beard, parson

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 (hedge, parson, quickset hedge, shirt), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 hedge	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hedge	det
3	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hedge	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hedge	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hedge	det
6	quickset	quickset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hedge	amod
7	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shreds	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tore	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tore	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 began	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 parson	det
12	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tore	advcl
14	capering	caper	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 began	xcomp
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 capering	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tore	nsubj
20	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hedge	nmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	20 tore	fixed
22	shreds	shred	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 cassock	nmod:poss
24	cassock	cassock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shreds	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 breeches	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 breeches	nmod:poss
27	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cassock	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 coat	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 coat	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 coat	nmod:poss
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 coat	case
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 under	punct
33	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shreds	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 scratched	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 scratched	cc
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 shirt	nmod:poss
37	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 scratched	nsubj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 scratched	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 scratched	cc
40	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shreds	parataxis
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 skin	nmod:poss
42	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 scratched	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 wrenched	cc
44	wrenched	wrench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 scratched	conj
45	out	out	ADP	_	44 wrenched	compound:prt
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 beard	nmod:poss
47	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wrenched	obj
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 shaved	mark
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 shaved	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 shaved	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 shaved	aux
52	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	55 shaved	aux:pass
53	very	very	ADV	_	54 badly	advmod
54	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 shaved	advmod
55	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 wrenched	advcl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 had	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 had	cc
58	still	still	ADV	_	61 parson	advmod
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 parson	det
60	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 parson	amod
61	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 had	nsubj
62	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shreds	parataxis
63	to	to	PART	_	64 go	mark
64	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 had	xcomp
65	on	on	ADP	_	66 dancing	case
66	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 go	obl
67	in	in	ADP	_	69 midst	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 midst	det
69	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 go	obl
70	of	of	ADP	_	73 hedge	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 hedge	det
72	prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 hedge	amod
73	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 midst	nmod
74	till	till	SCONJ	_	76 were	mark
75	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	76 were	expl
76	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 go	advcl
77	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 weals	amod
78	weals	weal	NOUN	Number=Plur	76 were	nsubj
79	and	and	CCONJ	_	80 wounds	cc
80	wounds	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	76 were	conj
81	all	all	ADV	_	84 body	advmod
82	over	over	ADP	_	84 body	case
83	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	84 body	nmod:poss
84	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 wounds	obl
85	,	,	PUNCT	_	90 began	punct
86	and	and	CCONJ	_	90 began	cc
87	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	89 blood	det
88	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	89 blood	amod
89	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	90 began	nsubj
90	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 had	conj
91	to	to	PART	_	92 flow	mark
92	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	90 began	xcomp
93	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 shreds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the hedge	a quickset hedge		now		tree rules
2	begin	past	the parson					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	caper	gerund	the parson not said here				about dancing	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about it=Trajectory
4	tore		parson					tree rules
5	shred	present	a quickset hedge	parson's cassock and parson's breeches	parson's coat			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cassock=Patient
6	scratch	past	parson's shirt	parson's skin				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
7	wrench out	participle	parson's shirt not said here	parson's beard				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beard=Patient
8	shave	past · perfect · passive		parson			badly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	have	past	the poor parson					tree rules
10	go	to-infinitive	the poor parson not said here		dancing		in the midst of the prickly hedge	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on dancing=Location
11	be	past	great weals		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	wound	present	great weals not said here		parson's body			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
13	begin	past	the red blood					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
14	flow	to-infinitive	the red blood not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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