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Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 32

So they hid them in the straw, and just as the guards had ceased knocking at the doors as they went their rounds, sparks began to flash beneath the straw roof, and the Tsarivna coughed.

Who acts: guards, sparks, Tsarivna · What happens: hide, cease, knock, go, begin, flash · To what, where: legs, straw, guards, rounds, straw roof

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, sparks, Tsarivna), 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

advmodnsubjobjcasedetoblpunctccadvmodmarkdetnsubj:passauxconjadvclcasedetoblmarknsubjadvclnmod:possobjpunctnsubjparataxismarkxcompcasedetcompoundoblpunctccdetnsubjconjpunctrootSoADVtheyPRONhidVERBthemPRONinADPtheDETstrawNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJjustADVasSCONJtheDETguardsNOUNhadAUXceasedVERBknockingVERBatADPtheDETdoorsNOUNasSCONJtheyPRONwentVERBtheirPRONroundsNOUN,PUNCTsparksNOUNbeganVERBtoPARTflashVERBbeneathADPtheDETstrawNOUNroofNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETTsarivnaPROPNcoughedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 hidadvmod
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 hidnsubj
3hidhideVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 hidobj
5ininADP_7 strawcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 strawdet
7strawstrawNOUNNumber=Sing3 hidobl
8,,PUNCT_15 ceasedpunct
9andandCCONJ_15 ceasedcc
10justjustADV_15 ceasedadvmod
11asasSCONJ_15 ceasedmark
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 guardsdet
13guardsguardNOUNNumber=Plur15 ceasednsubj:pass
14hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 ceasedaux
15ceasedceaseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 hidconj
16knockingknockVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 hidadvcl
17atatADP_19 doorscase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 doorsdet
19doorsdoorNOUNNumber=Plur16 knockingobl
20asasSCONJ_22 wentmark
21theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 wentnsubj
22wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 hidadvcl
23theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 roundsnmod:poss
24roundsroundNOUNNumber=Plur22 wentobj
25,,PUNCT_27 beganpunct
26sparkssparkNOUNNumber=Plur27 begannsubj
27beganbeginVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 hidparataxis
28totoPART_29 flashmark
29flashflashVERBVerbForm=Inf27 beganxcomp
30beneathbeneathADP_33 roofcase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 roofdet
32strawstrawNOUNNumber=Sing33 roofcompound
33roofroofNOUNNumber=Sing29 flashobl
34,,PUNCT_38 coughedpunct
35andandCCONJ_38 coughedcc
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 Tsarivnadet
37TsarivnaTsarivnaPROPNNumber=Sing38 coughednsubj
38coughedcoughVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 beganconj
39..PUNCT_3 hidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hidepastguards = guardlegs = legthe strawvn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in straw=Location
2ceasepast · perfect · passivethe guardsvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
3knockgerundguards = guard not said hereat the doorsvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
4gopastguards = guardguards's roundsvn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location round=Theme
5beginpastsparksvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6flashto-infinitivesparks not said herethe straw roofvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath roof=Location
7coughpastthe Tsarivnavn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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