Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 23
Then he took St Michael down from the niche, dug out his eyes, and began beating him.
Who acts: man · What happens: take down, dig out, begin, beat · To what, where: Michael, niche, eyes, man
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 (man), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Michael | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 niche | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 niche | det |
| 9 | niche | niche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dug | punct |
| 11 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 dug | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dug | 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 took | conj |
| 18 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 began | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 beating | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take down | past | man | Michael St | the niche | then | down property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent michael=Theme | |
| 2 | dig out | participle | man not said here | man's eyes | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | man not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | beat | gerund | man not said here | man | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
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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