Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 47
So he stretched forth his weapon, and drew forth a goodly serpent, such as is only known of in old folk-songs.
Who acts: Daniel · What happens: stretch, draw, know · To what, where: weapon, goodly serpent
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stretched | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 stretched | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 weapon | nmod:poss |
| 6 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drew | cc |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 drew | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 serpent | det |
| 12 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 serpent | amod |
| 13 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 known | punct |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 known | mark |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 such | fixed |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 known | aux:pass |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 known | advmod |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 serpent | acl:relcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 songs | case |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 songs | case |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 songs | amod |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 songs | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 folk | punct |
| 25 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 known | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | Daniel | Daniel's weapon | forth property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient | |||
| 2 | draw | past | Daniel not said here | a goodly serpent | forth property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | present · passive | a goodly serpent not said here | of old folk songs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of song=Stimulus |
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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