Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 166

And while he was looking at it, three wild doves came flying along and lit down upon this lake.

Who acts: brother, three wild doves · What happens: look, come, fly, lit down

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, three wild doves), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 looking	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looking	aux
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 came	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looking	punct
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 doves	nummod
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 doves	amod
11	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 came	xcomp
14	along	along	ADV	_	13 flying	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lit	cc
16	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 flying	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 lit	compound:prt
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 lake	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 lake	det
20	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lit	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	brother	at wood	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	come	past	three wild doves		tree rules
3	fly	gerund	three wild doves not said here	along property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lit down	participle	three wild doves not said here	upon this lake	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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