Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 26

While he was thus abusing St Michael, a young fellow about twenty years old came along that way, and said to him, "What art thou doing, my father?"--"I am beating him because he stood surety and has played me false.

Who acts: man, young fellow · What happens: abuse, come, say, do, beat, stand · To what, where: Michael, way, man, father, surety · Speech: someone speaks here

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, young fellow), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 abusing	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 abusing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 abusing	aux
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 abusing	advmod
5	abusing	abuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
6	St	St	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Michael	nmod:desc
7	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 abusing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 abusing	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fellow	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fellow	amod
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 twenty	advmod
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 old	obl:unmarked
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fellow	amod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	along	along	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 art	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 art	punct
27	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 art	nsubj
28	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	conj
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 art	obj
30	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 art	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 father	punct
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 doing	obj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 father	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 father	punct
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 beating	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 beating	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 beating	nsubj
39	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 beating	aux
40	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 doing	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 beating	obj
42	because	because	SCONJ	_	44 stood	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 stood	nsubj
44	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 beating	advcl
45	surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 stood	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 played	cc
47	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 played	aux
48	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 stood	conj
49	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 played	obj
50	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 played	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	abuse	past · progressive	man	Michael St			thus property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent michael=Theme
2	come	past	a young fellow			that way		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along way=Initial_Location
3	say speech: ask	past			man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	do in a quote	gerund		my father				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality
5	beat in a quote	present · progressive	man	man				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
6	stand in a quote	past	man	surety				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer surety=Stimulus
7	play in a quote	present · perfect	man not said here	man			false property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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