Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 83

First he twined tightly a pood of hemp, and tarred it well with a pood of pitch; round this he plaited another pood of hemp, and tarred that also with another pood of pitch, till he had used up the whole forty.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: twine, tar, plait, use up · To what, where: pood, hemp, that, whole forty

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 (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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 twined	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 twined	nsubj
3	twined	twine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	6 pood	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pood	det
6	pood	pood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twined	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 hemp	case
8	hemp	hemp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pood	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tarred	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tarred	cc
11	tarred	tar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 twined	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tarred	obj
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 tarred	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 pood	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pood	det
16	pood	pood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tarred	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 pitch	case
18	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pood	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 plaited	punct
20	round	round	ADP	_	21 this	case
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 plaited	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 plaited	nsubj
23	plaited	plait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 twined	conj
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 pood	det
25	pood	pood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plaited	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 hemp	case
27	hemp	hemp	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pood	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tarred	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tarred	cc
30	tarred	tar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 plaited	conj
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 tarred	obj
32	also	also	ADV	_	30 tarred	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 pood	case
34	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	35 pood	det
35	pood	pood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tarred	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 pitch	case
37	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pood	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 used	punct
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	42 used	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 used	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 used	aux
42	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 tarred	conj
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 used	compound:prt
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 forty	det
45	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 forty	amod
46	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 used	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 twined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	twine	past	Ivan	a pood of hemp	first property	vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pood=Theme
2	tar	past	Ivan not said here	hemp	with a pood of pitch; well property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with pood=Theme
3	plait	past	Ivan	another pood of hemp	round this	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pood=Patient
4	tar	past	Ivan not said here	that	with another pood of pitch	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Destination with pood=Theme
5	use up	past · perfect	Ivan	the whole forty		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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