Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 121

Henceforth he never took his eyes off the gnat, and when he had begun to walk round the twenty-one daughters for the third time, the gnat sat on the nose of the youngest, and began to bite her.

Who acts: prince, gnat · What happens: not take, begin, walk, sit, bite · To what, where: eyes, gnat, nose, sign

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, gnat), 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	Henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 took	advmod
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 gnat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gnat	det
9	gnat	gnat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 begun	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 begun	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 begun	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 begun	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 begun	aux
15	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 took	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 walk	mark
17	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 begun	xcomp
18	round	round	ADP	_	23 daughters	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 daughters	det
20	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 one	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 twenty	punct
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 daughters	nummod
23	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 walk	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 time	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
26	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walk	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sat	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 gnat	det
30	gnat	gnat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sat	nsubj
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 nose	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 nose	det
34	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sat	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 youngest	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 youngest	det
37	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 nose	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 began	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 began	cc
40	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 bite	mark
42	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 began	xcomp
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 bite	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	past	prince	prince's eyes	the gnat		henceforth property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off gnat=Initial_Location
2	begin	past · perfect	prince					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	walk	to-infinitive	prince not said here			time	round the one daughters	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round daughter=Trajectory
4	sit	past	the gnat		the nose of the youngest			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nose=Location
5	begin	past	prince not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	bite	to-infinitive	prince not said here	sign				vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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