Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 94
Then there came a snake out of the water, and glided on to the daughter's shift.
Who acts: snake, daughter · What happens: come, glide on, shift · To what, where: water, shift
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, daughter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 snake | det |
| 5 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glided | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glided | cc |
| 12 | glided | glide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 glided | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 shift | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 daughter | det |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shift | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 18 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glided | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a snake | the water; there | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out water=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | glide on | participle | a snake not said here | the daughter's shift | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shift=Destination | ||||
| 3 | shift | the daughter | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=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: «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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