Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 75
Then she waited till he was asleep, and drew them off him, and gave them to the people from the strange land.
Who acts: Lead, Daniel · What happens: wait, be, draw, give · To what, where: gloves, strange land
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 (Lead, 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 | 3 waited | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 asleep | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asleep | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asleep | cop |
| 7 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waited | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drew | cc |
| 10 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drew | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gave | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 land | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 land | det |
| 23 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 land | amod |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Lead | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Daniel | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | Lead not said here | gloves = glove | off Daniel | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme off he=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | give | past | Lead not said here | gloves = glove | the strange land | to the people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to people=Recipient |
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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