Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 75

Then the self-slicing sword cut him into little bits, and his beasts knew nothing about it, for they were sleeping after their labours.

Who acts: slicing sword, beasts · What happens: slice, cut, know, sleep · To what, where: Tsar, little bits, nothing

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, beasts), 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 cut	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	7 cut	nsubj
7	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cut	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 bits	case
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bits	amod
11	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cut	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knew	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 beasts	nmod:poss
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cut	parataxis
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 knew	obj
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 nothing	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sleeping	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 sleeping	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sleeping	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sleeping	aux
24	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 knew	parataxis
25	after	after	ADP	_	27 labours	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 labours	nmod:poss
27	labours	labour	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sleeping	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cut	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	cut	past	the slicing sword	Tsar	little bits	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into bit=Product
3	know	past	Tsar's beasts	nothing			about side	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	sleep	past · progressive	beasts = beast			after beasts's labours		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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