Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 189
Then he began to beat them with a stick, but they uttered not a sound.
Who acts: brother, oxen · What happens: begin, beat, not utter · To what, where: oxen, sound
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 (brother, oxen), 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 | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 beat | mark |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beat | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 stick | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stick | det |
| 9 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 uttered | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 uttered | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 uttered | nsubj |
| 13 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 uttered | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 uttered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | brother | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | beat | to-infinitive | brother not said here | oxen = ox | with a stick | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with stick=Instrument | |||
| 3 | not utter speech: other | past | oxen = ox | a sound | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sound=Topic |
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/pg29672/3/189/