Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 29

"Just before dawn, when the guards were sleeping, he came flying down my chimney.

Who acts: guards, dawn · What happens: sleep, come, fly down · To what, where: chimney

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, dawn), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dawn	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	4 dawn	advmod
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 dawn	case
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sleeping	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 sleeping	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guards	det
8	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sleeping	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sleeping	aux
10	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dawn	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dawn	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 came	xcomp
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 flying	compound:prt
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 chimney	nmod:poss
17	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flying	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sleep in a quote	past · progressive	the guards		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come in a quote	past	dawn		tree rules
3	fly down in a quote	gerund	dawn not said here	my chimney	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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