Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 59

He was so very thirsty that he flung himself down headlong by this spring without first crossing himself, wherefore that Accursed One, Satan, immediately had power over him, and caught him by the beard.

Who acts: TSAR · What happens: be, fling down, cross, accurs, have, catch · To what, where: TSAR, that, power

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TSAR), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thirsty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thirsty	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 thirsty	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 thirsty	advmod
5	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 flung	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flung	nsubj
8	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thirsty	advcl
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 flung	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 flung	compound:prt
11	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flung	xcomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 spring	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 spring	det
14	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flung	obl
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 crossing	mark
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 crossing	advmod
17	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 flung	advcl
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 crossing	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Accursed	punct
20	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	22 Accursed	advmod
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 Accursed	nsubj:pass
22	Accursed	accurs	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thirsty	conj
23	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 Accursed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Satan	punct
25	Satan	Satan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Accursed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
27	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	28 had	advmod
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thirsty	parataxis
29	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 caught	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 caught	cc
34	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 had	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 caught	obj
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 beard	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 beard	det
38	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 caught	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thirsty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	TSAR			thirsty property	tree rules
2	fling down	past	TSAR	TSAR	spring	headlong property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	cross	gerund	TSAR not said here	TSAR		first property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	accurs	participle · passive		that		Satan obl; wherefore property	tree rules
5	have	past		power		over TSAR; immediately property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
6	catch	past		TSAR		by the beard	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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