Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 139

Then the henchmen leaped out of the drum, laid the good wife by the heels, and began to give her a sound drubbing. "

Who acts: henchmen · What happens: leap out, lay, begin, give · To what, where: drum, good wife, sound drubbing, wife

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 (henchmen), 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	4 leaped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 henchmen	det
3	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leaped	nsubj
4	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 drum	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 drum	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drum	det
8	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laid	punct
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaped	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wife	amod
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 heels	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heels	det
16	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 laid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaped	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 give	mark
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 drubbing	det
24	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drubbing	compound
25	drubbing	drubbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leaped	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	leap out	past	the henchmen	the drum		then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme drum=Trajectory
2	lay	past	the henchmen not said here	the good wife			by the heels	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme by heel=Destination
3	begin	past	the henchmen not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	give	to-infinitive	the henchmen not said here	a sound drubbing	wife			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient drubbing=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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