Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 34

He unfastened it with greedy, trembling hands; but he had no sooner opened it than the Unlucky Days all popped out and clung on to him. "

Who acts: family, Unlucky Days · What happens: unfasten, tremble, have, open, pop out, cling · To what, where: straightway, hands

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 (family, Unlucky Days), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 unfastened	nsubj
2	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 unfastened	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 greedy	case
5	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 unfastened	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trembling	punct
7	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 unfastened	advcl
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trembling	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 unfastened	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 sooner	det
14	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 opened	advmod
15	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 opened	obj
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 popped	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Days	det
19	Unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Days	amod
20	Days	Day	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 popped	nsubj
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 popped	advmod
22	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 opened	advcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 popped	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 clung	cc
25	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 popped	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 him	case
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 clung	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 unfastened	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 unfastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	unfasten	past	family	straightway	with greedy	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	tremble	gerund	family not said here	hands		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
3	have	past	family			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	open	past	family not said here	straightway	soon property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	pop out	past	the Unlucky Days		all property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	cling	participle	the Unlucky Days not said here		on family	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=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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