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title: And while they slept the army of the strange country came upon them,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And while they slept the army of the strange country came upon them, and cried to Daniel to turn back if he would escape destruction. Who acts: heralds, Daniel. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 67

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And while they slept the army of the strange country came upon them, and cried to Daniel to turn back if he would escape destruction.

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**Who acts:** heralds, Daniel · **What happens:** sleep, come, cry, turn back, escape · **To what, where:** army, Daniel, destruction

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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 (heralds, Daniel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg29672:10:67
# text = And while they slept the army of the strange country came upon them, and cried to Daniel to turn back if he would escape destruction.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | heralds *= herald* | the army of the strange country |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon heralds *= herald* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  | Daniel |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to daniel=Recipient |
| 4 | **turn back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **escape** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Daniel | destruction |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme destruction=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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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