Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 76

And the next day he went hunting, and the evil counsellors surrounded and shot at him with their darts, and beat him with the gloves; but it was all in vain.

Who acts: Daniel, strength · What happens: go, hunt, surround, shoot, beat, be · To what, where: evil counsellors, Daniel

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, strength), 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	_	6 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl:unmarked
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 went	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 surrounded	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 surrounded	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 counsellors	det
11	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 counsellors	amod
12	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 surrounded	nsubj:pass
13	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 went	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shot	cc
15	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 surrounded	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shot	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 darts	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 darts	nmod:poss
20	darts	dart	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shot	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 beat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 beat	cc
23	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 shot	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 beat	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 gloves	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gloves	det
27	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 beat	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 vain	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 vain	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 vain	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 vain	cop
32	all	all	ADV	_	34 vain	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 vain	case
34	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Daniel		day		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt	gerund	Daniel not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	surround	participle · passive		the evil counsellors			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
4	shoot	participle				at Daniel; with counsellors's darts	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at he=Destination
5	beat	infinitive		Daniel		with the gloves	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with glove=Instrument
6	is	past	strength			all, vain property	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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