Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 116

Then he came down, and they both fell on their knees and began praying to God, and wept sore and gave thanks to God because He had had mercy on them both.

Who acts: _, eyes · What happens: come down, fall, begin, pray, weep, give · To what, where: knees, God, thanks, mercy

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, eyes), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 knees	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knees	nmod:poss
12	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fell	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fell	conj
15	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 began	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 God	case
17	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 praying	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wept	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wept	cc
20	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
21	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wept	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wept	conj
24	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 God	case
26	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 thanks	nmod
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
28	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 had	aux
30	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 gave	advcl
31	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	obl
34	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	33 them	appos
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	_				then	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	eyes = eye			eyes's knees			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
3	begin	past	eyes = eye not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	pray	gerund	eyes = eye not said here		God				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	weep	past	_ not said here					sore property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	give	past	_ not said here	thanks	God				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to god=Recipient
7	have	past · perfect	_	mercy				on eyes = eye	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Patient

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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