Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 97

So the innkeeper waited till he had ducked his head under the water, and then he thrashed him with the chain, whereupon he turned into a horse so beautiful that it was a delight to look upon it.

Who acts: innkeeper, head · What happens: wait, duck, thrash, turn, be, look · To what, where: head, water, horse, delight

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 (innkeeper, head), 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	_	4 waited	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 innkeeper	det
3	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 ducked	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ducked	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ducked	aux
8	ducked	duck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 waited	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ducked	obj
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ducked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thrashed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thrashed	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 thrashed	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thrashed	nsubj
18	thrashed	thrash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thrashed	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 chain	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chain	det
22	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thrashed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turned	punct
24	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	26 turned	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turned	nsubj
26	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 horse	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 horse	det
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 beautiful	advmod
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 turned	xcomp
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 delight	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 delight	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 delight	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 delight	det
36	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	xcomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 look	mark
38	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 turned	advcl
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 look	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the innkeeper					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	duck	past · perfect	innkeeper	innkeeper's head	the water			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent head=Location
3	thrash	past	innkeeper	horse		then	with the chain	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with chain=Instrument
4	turn	past	innkeeper				into a horse result; beautiful, whereupon property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into horse=Result
5	is a	past	head	a delight				tree rules
6	look	to-infinitive	innkeeper not said here				upon head	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme

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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