Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 24

He beat St Michael again and again, and at last he flung him into a puddle and trampled on him. "

Who acts: man · What happens: beat, fling, trample · To what, where: Michael, last

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	St	St	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Michael	nmod:desc
4	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obj
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 beat	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 again	cc
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 again	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flung	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flung	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flung	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flung	nsubj
13	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flung	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 puddle	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 puddle	det
17	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flung	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 trampled	cc
19	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 flung	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 trampled	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	man	Michael St		again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location michael=Theme
2	fling	past	man	Michael	last		into a puddle	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Destination
3	trample	participle	man not said here				on man	tree rules

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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