Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 24

On one side they were red, on the second side silver, and on the third side golden. "

Who acts: flowers · What happens: be · To what, where: one side, third side

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 (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	On	on	ADP	_	3 side	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 side	nummod
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 red	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 red	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 red	cop
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 silver	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 silver	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 silver	det
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 silver	amod
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 silver	compound
12	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 red	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 golden	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 golden	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 side	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 side	det
17	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 side	amod
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 golden	obl
19	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 red	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	flowers = flower			one side		red property	tree rules
2	be		flowers = flower not said here			the third side			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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