Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 9

Then Armless kicked Legless up to the oak, and Legless pulled it up and gave it to Armless.

Who acts: Armless, Legless · What happens: kick, pull up, give · To what, where: oak, Armless

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 (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	3 kicked	advmod
2	Armless	Armless	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kicked	nsubj
3	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Legless	legless	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 kicked	advmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	8 oak	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 oak	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oak	det
8	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kicked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pulled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pulled	cc
11	Legless	Legless	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pulled	nsubj
12	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kicked	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pulled	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 pulled	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kicked	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Armless	case
19	Armless	Armless	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kicked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	Armless			then	up the oak; legless property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	pull up	past	Legless	oak				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	give	past	Armless not said here	oak	Armless			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to armless=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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