Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 52

Then they went to bed, but very early in the morning, when it was neither dusk nor dawn, there was a noise in the doorway like "Durrrrrr!"--"Daddy!" cried the old woman, "there's some one scratching at the door, go and see who it is!"

Who acts: man, bed, noise, one · What happens: go, be, cry, scratch, see · To what, where: bed, dusk, old woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, bed, noise, one), 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	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 was	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 morning	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 morning	cc
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 early	advmod
9	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 morning	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 morning	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dusk	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 dusk	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dusk	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dusk	cop
17	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 dusk	cc:preconj
18	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 morning	parataxis
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 dawn	cc
20	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dusk	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 noise	det
25	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cried	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 doorway	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 doorway	det
28	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 noise	appos
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 Durrrrrr	case
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Durrrrrr	punct
31	Durrrrrr	durrrrrr	INTJ	_	28 doorway	discourse
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 Durrrrrr	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Durrrrrr	punct
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 Daddy	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Daddy	punct
36	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cried	nsubj
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 Daddy	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Daddy	punct
39	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 was	parataxis
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 woman	det
41	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 woman	amod
42	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cried	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 's	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 's	punct
45	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	46 's	expl
46	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 go	advcl
47	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	48 one	det
48	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 's	nsubj
49	scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 one	acl
50	at	at	ADP	_	52 door	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 door	det
52	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 scratching	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 go	punct
54	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 cried	conj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 see	cc
56	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 go	conj
57	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	56 see	ccomp
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 who	nsubj
59	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 who	cop
60	!	!	PUNCT	_	54 go	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	man		bed	then; morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	is a	past	bed	dusk nor dawn				tree rules
3	be	past			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	a noise	the old woman				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
5	be in a quote	present	some one		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	scratch in a quote	gerund	some one not said here				at the door	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
7	go in a quote	infinitive	a noise not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see in a quote	infinitive	a noise not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is a in a quote	present	noise					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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