Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 85

But the pike knew quite well what he was thinking about, and laid herself right across the sea.

Who acts: pike · What happens: know, think about, lay · To what, where: hole, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pike), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 knew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pike	det
3	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 knew	advmod
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 thinking	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thinking	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thinking	aux
10	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 knew	ccomp
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 thinking	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laid	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 laid	cc
14	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 laid	obj
16	right	right	ADV	_	19 sea	advmod
17	across	across	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laid	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the pike			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	think about speech: other	past · progressive	pike			about property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	lay	past	the pike not said here	hole	the sea		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Result

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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