Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 5

So they quarrelled over it, but as one had no legs and the other had no arms, they couldn't hurt one another.

Who acts: arms, one, other · What happens: quarrell, have, not hurt · To what, where: legs, arms, one

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 (arms, one, other), 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 quarrelled	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 quarrelled	nsubj
3	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 quarrelled	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quarrelled	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 legs	det
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 arms	det
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hurt	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hurt	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 hurt	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 hurt	advmod
23	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 quarrelled	conj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 hurt	obj
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 one	fixed
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 quarrelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	quarrell	past	arms = arm		over hare	tree rules
2	have	past	one	no legs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	have	past	the other	no arms		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
4	not hurt	could	arms = arm	one		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=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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