Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 205
Then he caught him up a second time, and tore off another hide, and began to worry that in like manner till he had torn it also to shreds; and thus he ran after Tremsin's steed for seventy miles, till he had torn off all the hides, and worried them to bits.
Who acts: SEA · What happens: catch up, tore off, begin, worry, tear, run · To what, where: steed, hide, manner, hides
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 (SEA), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 caught | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 caught | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tore | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tore | cc |
| 11 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 tore | compound:prt |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 hide | det |
| 14 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tore | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 worry | mark |
| 19 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 manner | mark |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 manner | case |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 manner | case |
| 23 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 worry | ccomp |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 27 torn | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 torn | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 torn | aux |
| 27 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 began | advcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 torn | obj |
| 29 | also | also | ADV | _ | 31 shreds | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 shreds | case |
| 31 | shreds | shred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 torn | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 ran | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ran | cc |
| 34 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 36 ran | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ran | nsubj |
| 36 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | parataxis |
| 37 | after | after | ADP | _ | 40 steed | case |
| 38 | Tremsin | Tremsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 steed | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 Tremsin | case |
| 40 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ran | obl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 miles | case |
| 42 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 miles | nummod |
| 43 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 ran | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 torn | punct |
| 45 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 48 torn | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 torn | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 torn | aux |
| 48 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 ran | conj |
| 49 | off | off | ADP | _ | 52 hides | case |
| 50 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 52 hides | det:predet |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 hides | det |
| 52 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 torn | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 worried | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 worried | cc |
| 55 | worried | worry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 56 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 worried | obj |
| 57 | to | to | ADP | _ | 58 bits | case |
| 58 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 worried | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past | SEA | steed | then; time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | tore off | past | SEA not said here | another hide | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | SEA not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | worry | to-infinitive | SEA not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | tear | past · perfect | SEA | manner | to shreds result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to shred=Result | |||
| 6 | run | past | SEA | after Tremsin's steed | for seventy miles; thus property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for mile=Beneficiary | |||
| 7 | tear off | past · perfect | SEA | all hides | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hide=Theme | ||||
| 8 | worry | past | SEA not said here | hides = hide | to bits | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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