Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 93

The princess and the serpents grinned and looked on, but Ivan Golik flicked his heroic whip, and struck the pig one blow that made it fly to pieces.

Who acts: princess, Ivan, one blow, blow · What happens: grin, look on, flick, strike, make, fly · To what, where: heroic whip, pig, blow

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 (princess, Ivan, one blow, blow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grinned	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 serpents	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 serpents	det
5	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 princess	conj
6	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grinned	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 looked	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flicked	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 flicked	cc
12	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 flicked	nsubj
13	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ivan	flat
14	flicked	flick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grinned	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 whip	nmod:poss
16	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 whip	amod
17	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flicked	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 struck	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 struck	cc
20	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grinned	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pig	det
22	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 blow	nummod
24	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 made	nsubj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 blow	acl:relcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	obj
28	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 made	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 pieces	case
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fly	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grinned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grin	past	the princess and the serpents			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look on	past	the princess and the serpents not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	flick	past	Ivan	Ivan's heroic whip		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Theme
4	strike	past	the princess and the serpents not said here	the pig		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient blow=Result
5	make	past	one blow	blow		tree rules
6	fly	infinitive	blow not said here		to pieces result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to piece=Result

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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