Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 66

Then the heralds went through the tsardom till they had found these two Cossacks, and Daniel went forth with them into the endless steppes, and there he bade them lie down and sleep while he kept watch.

Who acts: heralds, Daniel · What happens: go, find, bade, lie down, sleep, keep · To what, where: tsardom, two Cossacks, endless steppes, heralds

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 (heralds, Daniel), 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	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heralds	det
3	heralds	herald	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 tsardom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tsardom	det
7	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 found	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 Cossacks	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 Cossacks	nummod
14	Cossacks	Cossack	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 found	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
17	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
19	forth	forth	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	obl
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 steppes	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 steppes	det
24	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 steppes	amod
25	steppes	steppe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bade	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bade	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 bade	expl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bade	nsubj
30	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bade	obj
32	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 bade	xcomp
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 lie	compound:prt
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sleep	cc
35	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	30 bade	conj
36	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 kept	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 kept	nsubj
38	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sleep	advcl
39	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 kept	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the heralds		the tsardom	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through tsardom=Initial_Location
2	find	past · perfect	heralds = herald	this two Cossacks				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cossack=Topic
3	go	past	Daniel		the endless steppes		with heralds = herald; forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into steppe=Initial_Location
4	bade	past	Daniel	heralds = herald	there			tree rules
5	lie down	infinitive	Daniel not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sleep	present	Daniel not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	keep	past	Daniel					tree rules
8	watch	infinitive	Daniel not said here					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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