Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 13

So they became brothers, and made a wagon between them, and fastened ropes to it, and while Armless dragged it along Legless drove it.

Who acts: miles, Armless, Legless · What happens: become, make, fasten, drag, drive · To what, where: brothers, wagon, ropes

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, Armless, Legless), 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 became	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wagon	det
9	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fastened	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fastened	cc
14	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
15	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fastened	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fastened	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dragged	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dragged	cc
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 dragged	mark
21	Armless	Armless	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 dragged	nsubj
22	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dragged	obj
24	along	along	ADP	_	26 drove	mark
25	Legless	legless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 drove	nsubj
26	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dragged	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drove	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	miles = mile	brothers			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	make	past	miles = mile not said here	a wagon		between miles = mile	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wagon=Product
3	fasten	past	miles = mile not said here	ropes	wagon		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to it=Co-Patient
4	drag	past	Armless	wagon			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	drive	past	Legless	wagon			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

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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