Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 68

Then the self-slicing sword and the beasts fell upon him, and tore him into little bits.

Who acts: slicing sword · What happens: slice, fall, tore · To what, where: Nedviga, little bits

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 (slicing sword), 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	10 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sword	det
3	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slicing	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 self	punct
5	slicing	slice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sword	amod
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 beasts	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beasts	det
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sword	conj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fell	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tore	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tore	cc
15	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fell	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tore	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 bits	case
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bits	amod
19	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tore	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slice	gerund						vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	fall	past	the slicing sword and the beasts			then	upon Nedviga	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
3	tore	past	the slicing sword and the beasts not said here	Nedviga	little 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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