Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 21
Only toward dawn did he doze off, then he saw in a dream an angel standing at his head. "
Who acts: dawn, priest, angel · What happens: doze off, see, stand · To what, where: angel, dream, head
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dawn, priest, angel), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 dawn | advmod |
| 2 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 3 dawn | case |
| 3 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doze | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 doze | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 doze | nsubj |
| 6 | doze | doze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 doze | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 doze | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dream | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dream | det |
| 14 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 angel | det |
| 16 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 angel | acl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 standing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 doze | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 doze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doze off | past · do-support | dawn | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | see | past | priest | a angel | a dream | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer angel=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a angel not said here | priest's head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at head=Location |
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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