Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 42

But meanwhile Ivan out with his knife, and putting it through the hole, cut a round piece off the monk's robe.

Who acts: you · What happens: put, cut · To what, where: knife, hole, Ivan

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 cut	cc
2	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	3 Ivan	advmod
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obl
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 Ivan	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 knife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 knife	nmod:poss
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Ivan	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cut	cc
10	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 cut	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 putting	obj
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 hole	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hole	det
14	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 putting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 putting	punct
16	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 piece	det
18	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 piece	amod
19	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obj
20	off	off	ADP	_	24 robe	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 monk	det
22	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 robe	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 monk	case
24	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	gerund	you not said here	knife		the hole			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme through hole=Destination
2	cut	imperative	you not said here	Ivan with hole's knife				off the monk's robe	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient off robe=Co-Patient

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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