--- title: That is why I am beating him now."--"Beat him not, my father! — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: That is why I am beating him now."--"Beat him not, my father! Who acts: That, I. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/28/) [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 Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/) / 28 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 28 That is why I am beating him now."--"Beat him not, my father! **Who acts:** That, I · **What happens:** be, beat, not beat · **To what, where:** man 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 (That, I), 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:pg29672:8:28 # text = That is why I am beating him now."--"Beat him not, my father! 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 beating beat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl:relcl _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl:relcl _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **beat** | present · progressive | I | man | | | now | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | | 3 | **not** **beat** | infinitive | That *not said here* | man | | | | my father *vocative* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/29/) - ↑ back to [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/)