--- title: But he wouldn't listen, but beat her and beat her, and held her nake… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But he wouldn't listen, but beat her and beat her, and held her naked feet over the fire, and toasted and roasted her till she shrivelled right up. Who acts: brother, master. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, master), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:22:20 # text = But he wouldn't listen, but beat her and beat her, and held her naked feet over the fire, and toasted and roasted her till she shrivelled right up. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 beat beat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 beat beat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 naked naked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 toasted toast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 roasted roast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 till till SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 shrivelled shrivell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 right right ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 up up ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **listen** | would | brother | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **beat** | past | | master | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | | 3 | **beat** | past | | master | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | | 4 | **hold** | past | | master's naked feet | | the fire | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent foot=Theme over fire=Location | | 5 | **toast** | past | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **roast** | past | | master | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 7 | **shrivell** | past | master | | | | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/21/) - ↑ back to [The Two Princes, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/)