Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 155

So they looked more closely, and they perceived that when Tremsin cleaned his horse he stroked it with the feather of the Bird Zhar, and the coat of the good steed straightway shone like burnished silver.

Who acts: servants, Tremsin, nobleman · What happens: look, perceive, clean, stroke, shine, burnish · To what, where: horse, good steed straightway

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 (servants, Tremsin, nobleman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 closely	advmod
5	closely	closely	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 perceived	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 perceived	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 perceived	nsubj
9	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 stroked	mark
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 cleaned	advmod
12	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cleaned	nsubj
13	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stroked	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 horse	nmod:poss
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cleaned	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stroked	nsubj
17	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 perceived	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stroked	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 feather	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 feather	det
21	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stroked	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 Zhar	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Zhar	det
24	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Zhar	compound
25	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 feather	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 coat	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 coat	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 coat	det
29	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 straightway	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 straightway	det
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 straightway	amod
33	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 straightway	compound
34	straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 coat	nmod
35	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 straightway	acl
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 silver	case
37	burnished	burnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 silver	amod
38	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shone	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	servants = servant		closely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	perceive	past	servants = servant			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	clean	past	Tremsin	nobleman's horse		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
4	stroke	past	nobleman	horse	with the feather of the Bird Zhar	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with feather=Instrument
5	shine	participle		the good steed straightway not said here	like burnished silver	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	burnish	participle				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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