--- title: He stood there and stood and waited and waited till he wept from she… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He stood there and stood and waited and waited till he wept from sheer weariness; but, at last, she came out again in the shape of a lovely damsel in gorgeous raiment, and opened the gate for him. " Who acts: Daniel, thunderbolt. 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" **Who acts:** Daniel, thunderbolt · **What happens:** stand, wait, weep, come out, open · **To what, where:** sheer weariness, last, gate This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Daniel, thunderbolt), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:10:50 # text = He stood there and stood and waited and waited till he wept from sheer weariness; but, at last, she came out again in the shape of a lovely damsel in gorgeous raiment, and opened the gate for him. " 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 till till SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 sheer sheer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 weariness weariness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 out out ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 again again ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 damsel damsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 gorgeous gorgeous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 raiment raiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | Daniel | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand** | past | Daniel *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | past | Daniel *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wait** | past | Daniel *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **weep** | past | Daniel | | | sheer weariness | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **come out** | past | thunderbolt | | | last | again | in the shape of a lovely damsel in gorgeous raiment; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **open** | past | | the gate | | | | for Daniel | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/10/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/10/51/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Unlucky Daniel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/10/)