Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 118

Then the drake swam toward the spot where the Tsar had left his clothes, and when it came up to them it changed into a man and put them on, and behold! the man was Daniel.

Who acts: drake, Tsar, man · What happens: swim, leave, come up, change, put on, be · To what, where: spot, clothes, Daniel

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 (drake, Tsar, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 swam	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drake	det
3	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	toward	toward	ADP	_	7 spot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spot	det
7	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 left	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tsar	det
10	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 left	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 spot	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 clothes	nmod:poss
14	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 left	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 changed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 changed	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 came	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 changed	advcl
20	up	up	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	obl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 changed	nsubj
24	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 man	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 changed	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 put	cc
29	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 changed	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 put	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	29 put	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 behold	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 behold	cc
34	behold	behold	INTJ	_	4 swam	discourse
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 Daniel	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Daniel	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 Daniel	cop
39	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 behold	vocative
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the drake			the spot	then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward spot=Trajectory
2	leave	past · perfect	the Tsar	Tsar's clothes					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
3	come up	past	drake		clothes				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
4	change	past	drake					into a man result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into man=Result
5	put on	infinitive	drake not said here	clothes					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
6	is a	past	the man	Daniel					tree rules

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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