Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 23

Then a change came over the stone, and divers flowers began to grow upon it.

Who acts: change, divers flowers · What happens: come, begin, grow · To what, where: stone

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 (change, divers flowers), 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 came	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 change	det
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 stone	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
10	divers	diver	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flowers	compound
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 grow	mark
14	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grow	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	a change	the stone	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over stone=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	divers flowers			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	grow	to-infinitive	divers flowers not said here	stone		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location

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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