Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 9
The same night a cloud arose, the hail poured down, and destroyed his wheat altogether.
Who acts: cloud · What happens: arise, pour down, destroy · To what, where: hail, wheat
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 (cloud), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloud | det |
| 5 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | nsubj |
| 6 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hail | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hail | det |
| 9 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | obj |
| 10 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hail | acl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 poured | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 destroyed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 destroyed | cc |
| 14 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arose | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wheat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 destroyed | obj |
| 17 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 14 destroyed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a cloud | the hail | night | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hail=Theme | |||
| 2 | pour down | participle | the hail not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 3 | destroy | past | a cloud not said here | cloud's wheat | altogether property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Patient |
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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