Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 164

When Wednesday had sharpened his sabre he came into the room and began feeling for the stiff collars of the bridegrooms' night-dresses, and straightway cut off the forty heads above the collars.

Who acts: Wednesday, foal, straightway · What happens: sharpen, come, begin, feel, cut off · To what, where: sabre, straightway, room, forty heads, collars

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wednesday, foal, straightway), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sharpened	advmod
2	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sharpened	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sharpened	aux
4	sharpened	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sabre	nmod:poss
6	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sharpened	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
14	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 began	xcomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 collars	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 collars	det
17	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 collars	amod
18	collars	collar	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feeling	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	25 dresses	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bridegrooms	det
21	bridegrooms	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dresses	nmod:poss
22	'	's	PART	_	21 bridegrooms	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dresses	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 night	punct
25	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 collars	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 straightway	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 straightway	cc
28	straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
29	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 straightway	acl
30	off	off	ADP	_	33 heads	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 heads	det
32	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 heads	nummod
33	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cut	obl
34	above	above	ADP	_	36 collars	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 collars	det
36	collars	collar	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cut	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sharpen	past · perfect	Wednesday	foal's sabre			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sabre=Patient
2	come	past	foal	straightway	the room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
3	begin	past	foal not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	feel	gerund	foal not said here			for the stiff collars of the bridegrooms's night dresses	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for collar=Theme
5	cut off	participle	straightway not said here	the forty heads	the collars		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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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