Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 116

Out of the drum, my twelve henchmen!" cried the Wind, "and just give this accursed drunkard a good lesson that he may keep his throat dry and listen a little more to old people!"--Immediately twelve henchmen leaped out of his drum and began giving the man a sound thrashing.

Who acts: twelve henchmen, man · What happens: cry, give, accurs, keep, listen, leap out · To what, where: Wind, drum, accursed drunkard, throat, more, sound thrashing

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 (twelve henchmen, man), 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	Out	out	ADP	_	4 drum	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 drum	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drum	det
4	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drum	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 henchmen	nmod:poss
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 henchmen	nummod
8	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cried	nsubj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 henchmen	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 henchmen	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Wind	det
13	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Wind	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Wind	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 give	advmod
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	conj
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 drunkard	det
20	accursed	accurs	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 drunkard	amod
21	drunkard	drunkard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lesson	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lesson	amod
24	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 keep	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 keep	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 keep	aux
28	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 give	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 throat	nmod:poss
30	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keep	obj
31	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 keep	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 listen	cc
33	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 little	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 more	obl:unmarked
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 listen	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 people	case
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 people	amod
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 listen	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 listen	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 listen	punct
42	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 leaped	punct
43	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	44 twelve	advmod
44	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 henchmen	nummod
45	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 leaped	nsubj
46	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	parataxis
47	out	out	ADP	_	50 drum	case
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 drum	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 drum	nmod:poss
50	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 leaped	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 began	cc
52	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 leaped	conj
53	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 began	xcomp
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 man	det
55	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 giving	obj
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 thrashing	det
57	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 thrashing	compound
58	thrashing	thrashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 giving	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	my twelve henchmen	the Wind		the drum		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Topic
2	give	infinitive	my twelve henchmen not said here	this accursed drunkard				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent drunkard=Recipient lesson=Theme
3	accurs	participle						tree rules
4	keep	may	man	man's throat			dry property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Theme
5	listen	present	my twelve henchmen not said here	more			to old people	tree rules
6	leap out in a quote	past	twelve henchmen	man's drum				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme drum=Trajectory
7	begin in a quote	past	twelve henchmen not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	give in a quote	gerund	twelve henchmen not said here	a sound thrashing	the man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient thrashing=Theme

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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