--- title: Then the henchmen leaped out of the drum, and laid hold of the rich… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the henchmen leaped out of the drum, and laid hold of the rich brother and his wife, and trounced them soundly, until the rich brother yelled with all his might, "Oh, oh! my own true brother, take what thou wilt, only let me off alive!" whereupon the poor brother cried to his henchmen, "Henchme --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/203/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/) / 203 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 203 Then the henchmen leaped out of the drum, and laid hold of the rich brother and his wife, and trounced them soundly, until the rich brother yelled with all his might, "Oh, oh! my own true brother, take what thou wilt, only let me off alive!" whereupon the poor brother cried to his henchmen, "Henchmen, henchmen! into the drum!" and the henchmen disappeared immediately. **Who acts:** henchmen, poor brother · **What happens:** leap out, lay, trounce, yell, take, let off · **To what, where:** drum, hold, henchmen, rich brother, All · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (henchmen, poor brother), 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:pg29672:3:203 # text = Then the henchmen leaped out of the drum, and laid hold of the rich brother and his wife, and trounced them soundly, until the rich brother yelled with all his might, "Oh, oh! my own true brother, take what thou wilt, only let me off alive!" whereupon the poor brother cried to his henchmen, "Henchmen, henchmen! into the drum!" and the henchmen disappeared immediately. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 henchmen henchman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 leaped leap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 trounced trounce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 soundly soundly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 until until ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 30 yelled yell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 31 with with SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 44 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 39 oh oh INTJ UH _ 44 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ _ 41 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 42 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 47 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 46 obj _ _ 48 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 49 nsubj _ _ 49 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 47 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 only only ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 46 conj _ _ 53 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ _ 54 off off ADP RP _ 52 compound:prt _ _ 55 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ! ! PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 58 whereupon whereupon ADV WRB PronType=Int 62 advmod _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 60 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ _ 62 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 63 to to ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 65 nmod:poss _ _ 65 henchmen henchman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 67 " " PUNCT `` _ 68 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 Henchmen henchman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 65 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 70 henchmen henchman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 65 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 71 ! ! PUNCT . _ 65 punct _ _ 72 into into ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 73 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 74 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 75 ! ! PUNCT . _ 74 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 76 " " PUNCT '' _ 74 punct _ _ 77 and and CCONJ CC _ 80 cc _ _ 78 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 79 det _ _ 79 henchmen henchman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 80 nsubj _ _ 80 disappeared disappear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 62 conj _ _ 81 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 80 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 82 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leap out** | past | the henchmen | the drum | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **lay** | past | the henchmen *not said here* | hold of the rich brother and brother's wife | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | | 3 | **trounce** | past | the henchmen *not said here* | henchmen *= henchman* | | | until the rich brother | my own true brother *obl*; soundly *property* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **yell** *speech: express* | participle | | the rich brother *not said here* | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 6 | **let off** *in a quote* | infinitive | | All | | | | alive *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the poor brother | | brother's henchmen and Henchmen and henchmen | the drum | | whereupon *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to henchman=Recipient | | 8 | **disappear** | past | the henchmen | | | | | immediately *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **hold** | | | the rich brother and brother's wife | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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:** «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 202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/202/) - next →: [sentence 204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/204/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/)