Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 63

So they shot at it and shot at it, and then they fell upon it with their axes and began to cut it to pieces.

Who acts: fishes · What happens: shoot, fall, begin, cut · To what, where: whale

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 (fishes), 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 shot	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shot	nsubj
3	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shot	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shot	cc
7	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shot	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shot	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 fell	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shot	parataxis
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 axes	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 axes	nmod:poss
19	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fell	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fell	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cut	mark
23	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cut	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 pieces	case
26	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cut	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	fishes = fish			at whale	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at it=Destination
2	shoot	past	fishes = fish not said here			at whale	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at it=Destination
3	fall	past	fishes = fish		then	upon whale; with fishes's axes	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location
4	begin	past	fishes = fish not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	cut	to-infinitive	fishes = fish not said here	whale		to pieces result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to piece=Result

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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