Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 116
He went, and there in the courtyard stood the twenty-one daughters.
Who acts: prince · What happens: go, stand · To what, where: one daughters, courtyard
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stood | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 courtyard | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 courtyard | det |
| 8 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 daughters | det |
| 11 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 one | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 twenty | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 daughters | nummod |
| 14 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | prince not said here | the one daughters | the courtyard; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in courtyard=Destination |
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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