Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 124

They set to work with a will, and long before dawn it was quite finished.

Who acts: mice · What happens: set, work, finish · To what, where: room

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mice), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 work	mark
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 set	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 will	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 will	det
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 work	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 finished	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 finished	cc
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 finished	advmod
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 dawn	case
12	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 finished	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 finished	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 finished	aux:pass
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 finished	advmod
16	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 set	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	present	mice = mouse				tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	mice = mouse not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	finish	past · passive		room	dawn	long property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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