Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 80

Now when Nedviga awoke he perceived that his master was no longer there, and immediately awoke all the rest, and they all began to think and consider which of them was the swiftest.

Who acts: Nedviga, master, buckets · What happens: awake, perceive, be, begin, think, consider · To what, where: rest

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (Nedviga, master, buckets), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 awoke	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 awoke	advmod
3	Nedviga	Nedviga	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 awoke	nsubj
4	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 perceived	nsubj
6	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 awoke	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 there	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 master	nmod:poss
9	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 there	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 there	cop
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 longer	advmod
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 there	advmod
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 perceived	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 awoke	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 awoke	cc
16	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	17 awoke	advmod
17	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 awoke	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 rest	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rest	det
20	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 awoke	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 began	nsubj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 they	det
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 awoke	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 think	mark
27	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 consider	cc
29	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 think	conj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 swiftest	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 swiftest	obl
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 swiftest	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 swiftest	det
35	swiftest	swift	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 consider	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	Nedviga		now		tree rules
2	perceive	past	Nedviga				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Nedviga's master			long, there property	tree rules
4	awake	past	Nedviga not said here	all rest		immediately property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rest=Theme
5	begin	past	buckets = bucket				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive	buckets = bucket not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	consider	infinitive	buckets = bucket not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
8	is	past				of buckets = bucket; swift property	tree rules

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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