Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 92

But Ivan Golik took out a fragment of the broken bow, fifty pounds in weight, and trounced her finely.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: take out, break, trounce · To what, where: fragment, mare

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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 (Ivan), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 took	cc
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
3	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ivan	flat
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fragment	det
7	fragment	fragment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bow	det
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bow	amod
11	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fragment	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pounds	punct
13	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pounds	nummod
14	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bow	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 weight	case
16	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pounds	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trounced	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 trounced	cc
19	trounced	trounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 trounced	obj
21	finely	finely	ADV	_	19 trounced	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take out	past	Ivan	a fragment of the broken bow and fifty pounds in weight		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragment=Theme
2	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	trounce	past	Ivan not said here	mare	finely property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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