Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 26

Pull it out and throw it behind thee!"--The little Tsar took out the comb and threw it behind him, and it became a huge wood, as thick and jagged as the teeth of a horse-comb.

Who acts: you, little Tsar, comb · What happens: pull out, throw, take out, become · To what, where: comb, thee, huge wood · 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 (you, little Tsar, comb), 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	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pull	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Pull	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 throw	cc
5	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pull	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 throw	obj
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 thee	case
8	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 throw	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Pull	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Pull	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Tsar	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Tsar	amod
14	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Pull	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 comb	det
18	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 threw	cc
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 threw	obj
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 threw	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 became	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 became	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 became	nsubj
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 wood	det
29	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wood	amod
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 became	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thick	punct
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 thick	case
33	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 became	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 jagged	cc
35	jagged	jagged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thick	conj
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 teeth	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 teeth	det
38	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 thick	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	43 comb	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 comb	det
41	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 comb	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 horse	punct
43	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 teeth	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Pull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull out	imperative	you not said here	comb			tree rules
2	throw	infinitive	you not said here	comb	thee		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind thou=Destination
3	take out in a quote	past	the little Tsar	the comb			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme
4	throw in a quote	past	the little Tsar not said here	comb		behind Tsar	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind he=Destination
5	become in a quote	past	comb	a huge wood			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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