Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 61

But the Accursed One held him all the tighter. "

Who acts: Accursed One · What happens: accurs, hold · To what, where: TSAR

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 (Accursed One), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 held	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 One	det
3	Accursed	accurs	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 One	amod
4	One	One	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 held	nsubj
5	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 held	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 tighter	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tighter	det
9	tighter	tight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 held	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 held	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accurs	participle							tree rules
2	hold	past	the Accursed One	TSAR				all tighter obl	vn keep-15.2 «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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