Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 35

But the stag swam across to the opposite bank, and the Tsar was extending his hand to seize him by the horns--when there was no longer any stag to be seen.

Who acts: stag, Tsar, extending · What happens: swim, extend, seize, be, see · To what, where: opposite bank, hand, stag

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 (stag, Tsar, extending), 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 swam	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stag	det
3	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	across	across	ADV	_	4 swam	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 bank	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bank	det
8	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bank	amod
9	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 extending	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 extending	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tsar	det
13	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 extending	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 extending	aux
15	extending	extend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 stag	csubj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 extending	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 seize	mark
19	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 extending	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seize	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 horns	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horns	det
23	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seize	obl
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 was	advmod
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 stag	cop
28	no	no	ADV	_	29 longer	advmod
29	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 was	advmod
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 stag	det
31	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	34 seen	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 seen	aux:pass
34	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 stag	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the stag		the opposite bank	across property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination
2	extend	past · progressive	the Tsar	stag's hand			vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	seize	to-infinitive	the Tsar not said here	stag		by the horns	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is a	past	extending	any stag			tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive · passive	the stag not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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