Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 84

But looking closer, I saw that it was quite full; so I bethought me that I would drink thereof, and I leaned over, when lo! that Evil-wanton (I mean the Devil) caught me by the beard and would not let me go.

Who acts: I, water, Evil wanton, me · What happens: look, see, be, bethink, drink, learn over · To what, where: me, Devil

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 (I, water, Evil wanton, me), 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	_	2 looking	cc
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 saw	advcl
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 looking	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 looking	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 full	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 full	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 full	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 full	advmod
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saw	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 bethought	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 bethought	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bethought	nsubj
15	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bethought	obj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 drink	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 drink	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 drink	aux
20	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bethought	advcl
21	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	20 drink	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leaned	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 leaned	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 leaned	nsubj
25	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
26	over	over	ADV	_	25 leaned	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 caught	punct
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	41 caught	mark
29	lo	lo	INTJ	_	41 caught	discourse
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 wanton	punct
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 wanton	det
32	Evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wanton	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Evil	punct
34	wanton	wanton	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 caught	nsubj
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	37 mean	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 mean	nsubj
37	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 wanton	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Devil	det
39	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 mean	obj
40	)	)	PUNCT	_	37 mean	punct
41	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 leaned	parataxis
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 caught	obj
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 beard	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 beard	det
45	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 caught	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 let	cc
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 let	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 let	advmod
49	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 caught	conj
50	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 let	obj
51	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 let	xcomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	I not said here		close property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	water		full property	tree rules
4	bethink	past	I	me		tree rules
5	drink	would	I		thereof property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	learn over	past	I		over property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	mean	present	I	the Devil		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=Topic
8	catch	past	that Evil wanton	me	by the beard	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
9	not let	would	that Evil wanton not said here	me		tree rules
10	go	infinitive	me not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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