Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 47

Then the dogs and the beasts rushed upon him and tore him to bits.

Who acts: dogs · What happens: rush, tore · To what, where: Nedviga

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 rushed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dogs	det
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rushed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 beasts	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beasts	det
6	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dogs	conj
7	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rushed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tore	cc
11	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rushed	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tore	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 bits	case
14	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tore	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush	past	the dogs and the beasts				then	upon Nedviga	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory
2	tore	past	the dogs and the beasts not said here	Nedviga				to bits	tree rules

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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