Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 141

Now the evening before the wedding they heard a young damsel crying _Shishki_[28] in the streets.

Who acts: fish, young damsel · What happens: hear, cry · To what, where: young damsel, streets, Shishki

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, young damsel), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl:unmarked
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 wedding	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wedding	det
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evening	nmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 damsel	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 damsel	amod
11	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
12	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 damsel	acl
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 Shishki	punct
14	Shishki	Shishki	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 crying	obj
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
16	[	[	PUNCT	_	17 28	punct
17	28	28	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 heard	obl
18	]	]	PUNCT	_	17 28	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 streets	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 streets	det
21	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heard	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	fish	a young damsel		the streets	now; evening	28 obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer damsel=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	gerund	a young damsel not said here	Shishki					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shishki=Topic

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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