Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 81
Then his wife wheedled and caressed him the third time. "
Who acts: wife · What happens: wheedle, caress · To what, where: 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 (wife), 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 wheedled | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wheedled | nsubj |
| 4 | wheedled | wheedle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 caressed | cc |
| 6 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wheedled | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 caressed | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caressed | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wheedled | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wheedled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wheedle | past | Daniel's wife | then | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | caress | past | Daniel's wife not said here | Daniel | time | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer |
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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