Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 194

All that I know is that I thwacked 'em till my arms ached, and they wouldn't stir, and not a single grunt did they give; till I was so angry that I spat at them, and came to tell thee.

Who acts: I, All, arms, arm, single grunt · What happens: know, be, ache, not stir, give, spat · To what, where: thee · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, All, arms, arm), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 thwacked	nsubj:outer
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 know	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 All	acl:relcl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thwacked	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 thwacked	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 thwacked	nsubj
8	thwacked	thwack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thwacked	obj
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 ached	mark
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arms	nmod:poss
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ached	nsubj
13	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thwacked	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stir	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stir	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stir	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stir	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 stir	advmod
19	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thwacked	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 give	cc
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 grunt	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 grunt	det
24	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grunt	amod
25	grunt	grunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 give	aux
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 give	nsubj
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stir	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 angry	punct
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 angry	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 angry	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 angry	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 angry	advmod
34	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stir	parataxis
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 spat	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 spat	nsubj
37	spat	spat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 angry	advcl
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 spat	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 came	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 came	cc
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thwacked	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 tell	mark
44	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 came	xcomp
45	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 tell	iobj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thwacked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	All		thwack property	tree rules
3	ache	past	my arms			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not stir	would	arm			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	give	past · do-support	a single grunt			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	I		angry property	tree rules
7	spat	present	I		at arm	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	come	past	All not said here			tree rules
9	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	All not said here	thee		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient

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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