Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 207

Tremsin struck him full on the forehead with the twenty poods of hair, and immediately he stood stock still.

Who acts: Tremsin, SEA · What happens: strike, stand · To what, where: SEA, stock

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 (Tremsin, SEA), 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	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	obj
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 struck	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 forehead	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forehead	det
7	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 poods	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 poods	det
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 poods	nummod
11	poods	pood	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forehead	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 hair	case
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 poods	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stood	cc
16	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	18 stood	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stood	nsubj
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struck	conj
19	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obj
20	still	still	ADV	_	18 stood	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	Tremsin	SEA				on the forehead with the twenty poods of hair; full property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on forehead=Patient
2	stand	past	SEA	stock			still	immediately property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stock=Stimulus

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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