Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 73

It wouldn't give me anything to eat and drink, so I began beating it, and beat the wall in.

Who acts: mischief, I · What happens: not give, eat, drink, begin, beat, beat in · To what, where: anything, me, mischief, wall

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 (mischief, I), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 give	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 anything	acl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drink	cc
10	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 eat	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 began	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	advcl
15	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 began	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 beating	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 beat	cc
19	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 give	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wall	det
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beat	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	19 beat	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not give	would	mischief	anything	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	mischief not said here	anything not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	infinitive	mischief not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	I			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	beat	gerund	I not said here	mischief		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
6	beat in	infinitive		the wall		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wall=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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