Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 27

At last they swam off to their mother, and told her what a great woe was about to befall.

Who acts: daughters, great woe · What happens: swim off, tell, be, befall · To what, where: last, storm · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (daughters, great woe), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 swam	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 swam	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mother	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 about	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woe	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woe	amod
16	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 about	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 about	cop
18	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 told	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 befall	mark
20	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 about	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim off	past	daughters = daughter		last	to daughters's mother	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory
2	tell speech: assert	past	daughters = daughter not said here	storm			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is	past	a great woe			about property	tree rules
4	befall	to-infinitive	a great woe not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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