Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 45

When he came to his senses it was too late; the day had already dawned.

Who acts: son, park · What happens: come, be, dawn · To what, where: senses

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, park), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 late	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 senses	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 senses	nmod:poss
6	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 late	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 late	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 late	advmod
10	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 dawned	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dawned	obl:unmarked
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dawned	aux
15	already	already	ADV	_	16 dawned	advmod
16	dawned	dawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 late	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	son	son's senses			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sens=Initial_Location
2	is	past	park			late property	tree rules
3	dawn	past · perfect	park not said here		day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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