Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 27

But the next morning a thunderbolt descended and struck the stone, and shivered it to atoms.

Who acts: thunderbolt · What happens: descend, strike, shiver · 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 (thunderbolt), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 descended	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 descended	obl:unmarked
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thunderbolt	det
6	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 descended	nsubj
7	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 struck	cc
9	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 descended	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stone	det
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 struck	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shivered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shivered	cc
14	shivered	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 descended	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shivered	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 atoms	case
17	atoms	atom	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shivered	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 descended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	descend	past	a thunderbolt		morning		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	strike	past	a thunderbolt not said here	the stone			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
3	shiver	past	a thunderbolt not said here	stone		to atoms	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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