Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 12

They all slept, all but one, but to him slumber would not come.

Who acts: depths, slumber · What happens: sleep, not come · To what, where: one, nobleman

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (depths, slumber), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slept	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 slept	advmod
3	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	nsubj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 one	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 slept	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 come	obl
12	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 come	advmod
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 slept	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	depths = depth	one					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not come	would	slumber		nobleman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

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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