Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 86
So he let himself be persuaded, and no sooner had he undressed than she changed all his clothes for others, and gave his sword and his shirt to his enemies.
Who acts: father, wife · What happens: let, persuade, undress, change, give · To what, where: father, clothes, sword, enemies
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 (father, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 6 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 let | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 undressed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 undressed | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 sooner | det |
| 10 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 undressed | advmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 undressed | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 undressed | nsubj |
| 13 | undressed | undress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 let | conj |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 changed | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 changed | nsubj |
| 16 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 undressed | advcl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 clothes | det:predet |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 changed | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 others | case |
| 21 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 changed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sword | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 shirt | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 29 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sword | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 enemies | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 32 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gave | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | father | father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | persuade | infinitive · passive | father not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | undress | past · perfect | father | soon property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | change | past | wife | father's clothes | for others | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme for other=Co-Theme | |||
| 5 | give | past | father not said here | father's sword and father's shirt | father's enemies | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sword=Theme to enemy=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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