Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 10
Daniel fell a-weeping. "
Who acts: Daniel · What happens: fall · To what, where: weeping
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Daniel), 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 | Daniel | Daniel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 weeping | det |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 a | punct |
| 5 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Daniel | a weeping | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient weeping=Result |
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.
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