Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 110

Then the man in his anger caught up a piece of wood and struck the ram on the head, but the poor ram only uttered a feeble baa! and fell to the earth dead.

Who acts: man, poor ram · What happens: catch up, strike, utter, fall, anger · To what, where: piece, ram, feeble baa

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, poor ram), 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	7 caught	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 anger	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 anger	nmod:poss
6	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
7	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 caught	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 piece	det
10	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 wood	case
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 piece	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 struck	cc
14	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 caught	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ram	det
16	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 struck	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 head	det
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 struck	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 uttered	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 uttered	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ram	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ram	amod
24	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 uttered	nsubj
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 uttered	advmod
26	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 caught	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 baa	det
28	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 baa	amod
29	baa	baa	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 uttered	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 uttered	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fell	cc
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 uttered	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 earth	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 earth	det
35	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fell	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch up	past	the man in man's anger	a piece of wood	then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
2	strike	past	the man in man's anger not said here	the ram		on the head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent ram=Instrument on head=Patient
3	utter speech: other	past	the poor ram	a feeble baa			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent baa=Topic
4	fall	past	the poor ram not said here			to the earth; dead property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme
5	anger		man				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/110/