Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 96
He, however, caught her also by her long locks, and flicked her with his whip till he had flicked all the serpent-blood out of her, and she walked the earth in human guise.
Who acts: Ivan, princess · What happens: catch, flick, walk · To what, where: princess, serpent blood, earth, human guise
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, princess), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 He | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 caught | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | obj |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 caught | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 locks | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 locks | nmod:poss |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 locks | amod |
| 11 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caught | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flicked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flicked | cc |
| 14 | flicked | flick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flicked | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 whip | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 whip | nmod:poss |
| 18 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flicked | obl |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 flicked | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 flicked | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 flicked | aux |
| 22 | flicked | flick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 flicked | advcl |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 blood | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 blood | det |
| 25 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 blood | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 serpent | punct |
| 27 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flicked | obj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 flicked | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 walked | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 walked | cc |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 walked | nsubj |
| 34 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 earth | det |
| 36 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 walked | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 guise | case |
| 38 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 guise | amod |
| 39 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 walked | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Ivan | princess | by princess's long locks; however property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | flick | past | Ivan not said here | princess | with Ivan's whip | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | flick | past · perfect | Ivan | all serpent blood | out princess | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent blood=Theme out she=Destination | |||
| 4 | walk | past | princess | the earth | human guise | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent earth=Theme in guise=Trajectory |
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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