Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 106

So they sent for a knife, and began sharpening it, when one of the maidens of the court took pity on the horse, and cried, "Oh, my good, my darling horse, so lovely as thou art, and yet to kill thee!"

Who acts: heart, one · What happens: send, begin, sharpen, take, cry, kill · To what, where: knife, pity, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (heart, one), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 knife	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
10	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 began	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sharpening	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 took	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 took	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 maidens	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 maidens	det
17	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 court	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 court	det
20	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 maidens	nmod
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	conj
22	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 horse	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horse	det
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cried	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cried	cc
28	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 good	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 good	punct
31	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	34 good	discourse
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Oh	punct
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 good	nmod:poss
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cried	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 horse	punct
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 horse	nmod:poss
37	darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 horse	amod
38	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 good	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 lovely	punct
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 lovely	advmod
41	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 good	parataxis
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 art	mark
43	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 art	nsubj
44	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 lovely	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 kill	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 kill	cc
47	yet	yet	ADV	_	49 kill	advmod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 kill	mark
49	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	parataxis
50	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	49 kill	obj
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	49 kill	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	heart			for a knife	tree rules
2	begin	past	heart not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sharpen	gerund	heart not said here	knife			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	take	past	one of the maidens of the court	pity		on the horse	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on horse=Destination
5	cry speech: express	past	heart not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	kill in a quote	to-infinitive		thee	yet		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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.

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