Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 165

Then he went on his way till he came to a certain wood, and, looking about him, he perceived that in this wood was a lake.

Who acts: brother · What happens: go, come, look, perceive, be · To what, where: way, certain wood, lake, wood

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 wood	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wood	det
12	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wood	amod
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 perceived	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 perceived	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looking	punct
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 perceived	advcl
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looking	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looking	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 perceived	nsubj
22	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 lake	mark
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 wood	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 wood	det
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lake	obl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lake	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 lake	det
29	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 perceived	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	brother		brother's way	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	come	past	brother		a certain wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
3	look	gerund	brother not said here				about brother	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
4	perceive	past	brother					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	brother not said here	a lake	this wood			tree rules

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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