Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 92

Then he stripped off his shirt and bade them tie him up so that he could not beat off a single gnat, and the gnats drank their fill of him and flew off again.

Who acts: general, shirt, gnats · What happens: strip off, tie up, not beat off, drink, fly off · To what, where: general, single gnat, fill

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 (general, shirt, gnats), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stripped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stripped	nsubj
3	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 stripped	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shirt	nmod:poss
6	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tie	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bade	cc
8	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shirt	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tie	nsubj
10	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stripped	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tie	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 tie	compound:prt
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 beat	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beat	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 beat	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 beat	advmod
18	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tie	advcl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 beat	compound:prt
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 gnat	det
21	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gnat	amod
22	gnat	gnat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beat	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 drank	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drank	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 gnats	det
26	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 drank	nsubj
27	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stripped	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 fill	nmod:poss
29	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drank	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fill	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 flew	cc
33	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 drank	conj
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 flew	compound:prt
35	again	again	ADV	_	33 flew	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stripped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	strip off	past	general		then	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tie up	present	general's shirt and bade	general		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	not beat off	could	general	a single gnat		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gnat=Theme
4	drink	past	the gnats	shirt's fill of general		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
5	fly off	past	the gnats not said here		again	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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