--- title: While he was thus abusing St Michael, a young fellow about twenty ye… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:8:26 # text = 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. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 thus thus ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 abusing abuse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 6 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:desc _ _ 7 Michael Michael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 along along ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 nsubj _ _ 28 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 obj _ _ 30 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 -- -- PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 beating beat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 conj _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 because because SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 45 surety surety NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 conj _ _ 49 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/27/) - ↑ back to [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/)