Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 54

But when he chanced to glance through the window, he saw that the whole courtyard was full of oats and water, and that his horse had already eaten its fill.

Who acts: horse, whole courtyard · What happens: chance, glance, see, be, eat · To what, where: horse · 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 (horse, whole courtyard), 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	_	12 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 chanced	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chanced	nsubj
4	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 glance	mark
6	glance	glance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chanced	xcomp
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glance	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chanced	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 full	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 courtyard	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 courtyard	amod
16	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 full	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 full	cop
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 saw	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 oats	case
20	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 full	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 water	cc
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 oats	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eaten	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 eaten	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 eaten	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 horse	nmod:poss
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eaten	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 eaten	aux
29	already	already	ADV	_	30 eaten	advmod
30	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 saw	conj
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fill	nmod:poss
32	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eaten	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chance	past	horse			vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	glance	to-infinitive	horse not said here		through the window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme
3	see	past	horse			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the whole courtyard		of oats and water; full property	tree rules
5	eat	past · perfect · passive		horse's horse		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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