Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 58

He went on and on till at last he saw once more a smoke rising up out of the wood.

Who acts: man, smoke · What happens: go, see, rise up · To what, where: smoke, 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 (man, smoke), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	till	till	ADP	_	8 last	case
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 smoke	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 smoke	det
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
15	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 smoke	acl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 rising	compound:prt
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 wood	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 wood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rising	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	man			till last	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	man	a smoke			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus
3	rise up	gerund	a smoke not said here		the wood		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out wood=Location

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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