Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 93

She reared and bucked and carried him hither and thither, but he flogged her between the ears without ceasing.

Who acts: mare, Ivan · What happens: rear, buck, carry, flog, cease · To what, where: Ivan, mare, ears

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 (mare, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reared	nsubj
2	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bucked	cc
4	bucked	buck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reared	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 carried	cc
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reared	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carried	obj
8	hither	hither	ADV	_	6 carried	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thither	cc
10	thither	thither	ADV	_	8 hither	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flogged	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 flogged	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flogged	nsubj
14	flogged	flog	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reared	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flogged	obj
16	between	between	ADP	_	18 ears	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ears	det
18	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flogged	obl
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 ceasing	mark
20	ceasing	cease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 flogged	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rear	past	mare				vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	buck	past	mare not said here				vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	carry	past	mare not said here	Ivan		hither property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	flog	past	Ivan	mare	the ears		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient between ear=Location
5	cease	gerund	Ivan not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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