Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 34

Then the Tsarivna leaped out of bed; but Armless lay down on the floor and kicked Legless on to the cushions, and Legless took the serpent in his arms and began to throttle it. "

Who acts: Tsarivna, Armless, Legless · What happens: leap out, lie down, kick, take, begin, throttle · To what, where: bed, floor, cushions, serpent, arms

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 (Tsarivna, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 leaped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsarivna	det
3	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 leaped	nsubj
4	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaped	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
10	Armless	Armless	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaped	parataxis
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 floor	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 floor	det
15	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kicked	cc
17	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	conj
18	Legless	legless	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 kicked	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 cushions	case
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 cushions	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cushions	det
22	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 kicked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 took	cc
25	Legless	Legless	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 took	nsubj
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 serpent	det
28	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 arms	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 arms	nmod:poss
31	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 took	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 began	cc
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 throttle	mark
35	throttle	throttle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 began	xcomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 throttle	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leaped	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leap out	past	the Tsarivna	bed		then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory
2	lie down	past	Armless		the floor		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
3	kick	past	Armless not said here		the cushions		legless property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	take	past	Legless	the serpent	serpent's arms			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent serpent=Value in arm=Location
5	begin	past	Armless not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	throttle	to-infinitive	Armless not said here	floor				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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