Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 20

So he persuaded them.--"Well, we can only perish once!" they cried; and the bullock carried them off.

Who acts: horse, we, friends, bullock · What happens: persuade, perish, cry, carry off · To what, where: friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, we, friends, bullock), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 persuaded	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 persuaded	nsubj
3	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 persuaded	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 persuaded	punct
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 perish	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 perish	punct
8	Well	well	INTJ	_	13 perish	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Well	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 perish	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 perish	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 perish	advmod
13	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 persuaded	parataxis
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 perish	advmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 perish	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 persuaded	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cried	nsubj
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 persuaded	parataxis
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 carried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 carried	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bullock	det
22	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carried	nsubj
23	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 persuaded	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carried	obj
25	off	off	ADP	_	23 carried	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	persuade	past	horse	friends = friend		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result
2	perish in a quote	can	we		once property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past	friends = friend			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	carry off	past	the bullock	friends = friend		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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