Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 49
Then she glided down from his charger and said, "Wait here, and I'll soon be with thee again," and with that she wriggled under the gate.
Who acts: thunderbolt · What happens: glide down, say, wait, be, wriggle · To what, where: charger, gate · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 glided | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 glided | nsubj |
| 3 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 glided | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 charger | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 charger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glided | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glided | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wait | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wait | punct |
| 12 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 Wait | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thee | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 thee | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 thee | nsubj |
| 17 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 thee | aux |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 thee | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thee | cop |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 thee | case |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 glided | parataxis |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 thee | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 again | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 thee | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 that | cc |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 that | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 thee | conj |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 wriggled | nsubj |
| 29 | wriggled | wriggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 that | acl:relcl |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 gate | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 gate | det |
| 32 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wriggled | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide down | past | thunderbolt | Daniel's charger | then | down property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | thunderbolt not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | infinitive | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | thunderbolt | again | with thee; soon property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | wriggle | past | thunderbolt | the gate | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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