Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 26

But they seized the sister and tied her to the tail of a savage horse and let her loose upon the endless steppe.

Who acts: branches, harm · What happens: seize, tie, let, lose · To what, where: sister, harm

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branches, harm), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 seized	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sister	det
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	iobj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tied	cc
7	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tied	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 tail	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tail	det
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tied	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 horse	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 horse	det
14	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 horse	amod
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tail	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
17	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 steppe	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 steppe	det
22	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 steppe	amod
23	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 loose	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seize	past	branches = branch		the sister		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
2	tie	past	branches = branch not said here	harm		to the tail of a savage horse	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to tail=Co-Patient
3	let	infinitive	branches = branch not said here	harm			tree rules
4	lose	infinitive	harm not said here			upon the endless steppe	vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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