Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 50
He stood there and stood and waited and waited till he wept from sheer weariness; but, at last, she came out again in the shape of a lovely damsel in gorgeous raiment, and opened the gate for him. "
Who acts: Daniel, thunderbolt · What happens: stand, wait, weep, come out, open · To what, where: sheer weariness, last, gate
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, thunderbolt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 stood | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 waited | cc |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 waited | cc |
| 9 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waited | conj |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 wept | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wept | nsubj |
| 12 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 waited | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 weariness | case |
| 14 | sheer | sheer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 weariness | amod |
| 15 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wept | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 but | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 came | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 last | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 shape | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shape | det |
| 28 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 damsel | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 damsel | det |
| 31 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 damsel | amod |
| 32 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shape | nmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 raiment | case |
| 34 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 raiment | amod |
| 35 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 damsel | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 opened | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 opened | cc |
| 38 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 gate | det |
| 40 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 opened | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 opened | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Daniel | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Daniel not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | past | Daniel not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wait | past | Daniel not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | weep | past | Daniel | sheer weariness | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | come out | past | thunderbolt | last | again | in the shape of a lovely damsel in gorgeous raiment; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||
| 7 | open | past | the gate | for Daniel | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=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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