Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 67

And while they slept the army of the strange country came upon them, and cried to Daniel to turn back if he would escape destruction.

Who acts: heralds, Daniel · What happens: sleep, come, cry, turn back, escape · To what, where: army, Daniel, destruction

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	4 slept	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 army	det
6	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slept	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 country	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 country	det
9	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 country	amod
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 army	nmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Daniel	case
18	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 turn	mark
20	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cried	advcl
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 turn	advmod
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 escape	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 escape	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 escape	aux
25	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 turn	advcl
26	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 escape	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	heralds = herald	the army of the strange country			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme
2	come	past				upon heralds = herald	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location
3	cry speech: express	past			Daniel		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to daniel=Recipient
4	turn back	to-infinitive					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	escape a condition, not said to happen	would	Daniel	destruction			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme destruction=Initial_Location

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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