Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 160
Now, when Wednesday thought that all the people were asleep, he went out into the courtyard to sharpen his sabre.
Who acts: Wednesday, people, brother · What happens: think, be, go out, sharpen · To what, where: courtyard, sabre · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wednesday, people, brother), 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 | 5 thought | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 thought | advmod |
| 4 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 asleep | mark |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asleep | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asleep | cop |
| 11 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 courtyard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 courtyard | det |
| 18 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sharpen | mark |
| 20 | sharpen | sharpen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sabre | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sharpen | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Wednesday | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all people | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | brother | the courtyard | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | sharpen | to-infinitive | brother not said here | brother's sabre | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sabre=Patient |
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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