Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 163

So when they got to the wild steppes, Tremsin stripped himself naked and flung himself in the grass, and, immediately, the Bird Zhar swooped down and began pecking all about him, and at last she pecked at his eyes.

Who acts: claws, Tremsin, Bird Zhar, ZHAR · What happens: get, strip, fling, swoop down, begin, peck · To what, where: instant, grass

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (claws, Tremsin, Bird Zhar, ZHAR), 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	_	4 got	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 steppes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 steppes	det
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 steppes	amod
8	steppes	steppe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stripped	punct
10	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stripped	nsubj
11	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 stripped	obj
13	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stripped	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 flung	cc
15	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stripped	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 flung	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 grass	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grass	det
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flung	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 swooped	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 swooped	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 and	punct
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	28 swooped	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 immediately	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Zhar	det
26	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Zhar	compound
27	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 swooped	nsubj
28	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	parataxis
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 swooped	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 began	cc
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 swooped	conj
32	pecking	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 began	xcomp
33	all	all	ADV	_	35 him	advmod
34	about	about	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pecking	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 pecked	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 pecked	cc
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 last	case
39	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 pecked	obl
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 pecked	nsubj
41	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
42	at	at	ADP	_	44 eyes	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 eyes	nmod:poss
44	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 pecked	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	claws = claw			to the wild steppes result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to steppe=Result
2	strip	past	Tremsin	instant		naked property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	fling	past	Tremsin not said here	instant	the grass		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in grass=Destination
4	swoop down	past	the Bird Zhar			immediately property	tree rules
5	begin	past	the Bird Zhar not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	peck	gerund	the Bird Zhar not said here			about instant	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	peck	past	ZHAR			at instant's eyes; at last	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at last=Patient

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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