Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 71

All through the church they rolled, she after them, and she tried to pick them up till cockcrow, and at the very first "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" she got into her bier again and lay still.

Who acts: pears, shaking, Cock, first · What happens: roll, try, pick up, doo, get, lay · To what, where: church, pears, bier

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 (pears, shaking, Cock, first), 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	All	all	ADV	_	6 rolled	advmod
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 church	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 church	det
4	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rolled	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rolled	nsubj
6	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 them	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 them	nsubj
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rolled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tried	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tried	nsubj
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rolled	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pick	mark
16	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pick	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 pick	compound:prt
19	till	till	ADP	_	20 cockcrow	case
20	cockcrow	cockcrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pick	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 got	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 got	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 first	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 first	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 first	advmod
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 got	nsubj
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 doo	punct
28	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 doo	nsubj
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 doo	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 doo	det
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 a	punct
32	doodle	doodle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 doo	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 doodle	punct
34	doo	doo	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 first	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 doo	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 doo	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 got	nsubj
38	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rolled	parataxis
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 bier	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 bier	nmod:poss
41	bier	bier	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 got	obl
42	again	again	ADV	_	38 got	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lay	cc
44	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 got	conj
45	still	still	ADV	_	44 lay	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	past	pears = pear		the church	after boards = board	all property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through church=Trajectory
2	try	past	shaking					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	pick up not said to happen	to-infinitive	shaking not said here	pears = pear		till cockcrow		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	doo in a quote		Cock					tree rules
5	get	past	the first		shaking's bier	again		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bier=Destination
6	lay	infinitive	the first not said here			still		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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