Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 18

So he made a lasso of the reins, threw them round the old goat, and began to drag it gently down the mountain-side.

Who acts: man · What happens: make, throw, begin, drag · To what, where: lasso, reins, goat

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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 (man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lasso	det
5	lasso	lasso	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 reins	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reins	det
8	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lasso	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 threw	punct
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 threw	obj
12	round	round	ADP	_	15 goat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 goat	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 goat	amod
15	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 drag	mark
20	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drag	obj
22	gently	gently	ADV	_	20 drag	advmod
23	down	down	ADP	_	27 side	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 side	det
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 side	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 mountain	punct
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drag	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	man	a lasso of the reins		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lasso=Product
2	throw	past	man not said here	reins = rein	round the old goat	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	begin	past	man not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	drag	to-infinitive	man not said here	goat	down the mountain side; gently property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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