Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 97

So he turned himself into a needle again, and she fastened him in the wall, only a little higher up, so that the dogs should not get at him.

Who acts: four, Nedviga, dogs · What happens: turn, fasten, not get · To what, where: four, needle, wall

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 (four, Nedviga, dogs), 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 turned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 turned	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 needle	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 needle	det
7	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 needle	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fastened	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fastened	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fastened	nsubj
12	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fastened	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fastened	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 higher	punct
18	only	only	ADV	_	21 higher	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 little	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 higher	obl:unmarked
21	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 wall	amod
22	up	up	ADV	_	21 higher	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 get	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	30 get	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 get	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dogs	det
27	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 get	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 get	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 get	advmod
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 get	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	four	four	a needle		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into needle=Trajectory
2	fasten	past	Nedviga	four	the wall		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	not get	should	the dogs			at four	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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