Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 120

So when they got to the next little town, where they were holding a fair, the son changed himself into a horse, a horse as supple as a serpent, and so fiery that it was dangerous to approach him.

Who acts: nobles, son, it · What happens: get, hold, change, be, approach · To what, where: fair, son

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobles, son, it), 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	_	4 got	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 town	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 town	amod
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 holding	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 holding	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 holding	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 holding	aux
14	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 town	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fair	det
16	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holding	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 changed	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 son	det
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 changed	nsubj
20	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 changed	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 horse	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 horse	det
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 changed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 horse	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 horse	det
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 horse	appos
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 supple	case
29	supple	supple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 horse	nmod
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 serpent	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 serpent	det
32	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 changed	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fiery	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fiery	cc
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 fiery	advmod
36	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	conj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 dangerous	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 dangerous	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 dangerous	cop
40	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fiery	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 approach	mark
42	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 dangerous	csubj
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 approach	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	nobles = noble		to the next little town result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result
2	hold	past · progressive	nobles = noble	a fair		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fair=Theme
3	change	past	the son	son	into a horse result; as a serpent	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into horse=Result
4	is	past	it		dangerous property	tree rules
5	approach	to-infinitive		son		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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