Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 45
They beat him and beat him till he cried for mercy. "
Who acts: pair, serpent · What happens: beat, cry · To what, where: serpent
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 (pair, serpent), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 beat | nsubj |
| 2 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 beat | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beat | cc |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 beat | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beat | obj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 cried | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beat | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 mercy | case |
| 11 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beat | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | pair | serpent | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | past | pair not said here | serpent | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | serpent | for mercy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mercy=Recipient |
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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