Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 45

Daniel began to weep, when he heard a voice crying piteously, "Save me, save me!

Who acts: Daniel, voice · What happens: begin, weep, hear, cry, save · To what, where: voice, Tsar · 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 (Daniel, voice), 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	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 weep	mark
4	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 voice	det
10	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
11	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 voice	acl
12	piteously	piteously	ADV	_	11 crying	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Save	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Save	punct
15	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 Save	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 save	punct
18	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 Save	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 save	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Daniel			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	weep	to-infinitive	Daniel not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	Daniel	a voice		tree rules
4	cry speech: express	gerund	a voice not said here		piteously property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	save in a quote	infinitive		the Tsar = tsar		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	save in a quote	infinitive		the Tsar = tsar		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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