Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 54

The old man took the honey from the bear, but no sooner did he lie down than again there was another "Durrrrr!" at the door.

Who acts: old man, bear · What happens: take, lie down, be · To what, where: honey, bear

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 (old man, bear), 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 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 honey	det
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 bear	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bear	det
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lie	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 lie	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 sooner	det
13	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 lie	advmod
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lie	aux
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lie	nsubj
16	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	parataxis
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 lie	compound:prt
18	than	than	ADP	_	17 down	fixed
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 lie	advmod
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lie	advcl
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 was	flat:foreign
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Durrrrr	punct
24	Durrrrr	durrrrr	INTJ	_	22 another	discourse
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 Durrrrr	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Durrrrr	punct
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 door	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Durrrrr	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the old man	the honey	the bear			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent honey=Theme from bear=Initial_Location
2	lie down	past · do-support	bear			again	soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	bear not said here		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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