Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 140

But no sooner did the horse get to the river and bend down its head to drink than it turned into a perch and began swimming away.

Who acts: horse · What happens: do, get, bend down, drink, turn, begin · To what, where: horse, head, perch

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 (horse), 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	_	7 get	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 get	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sooner	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bend	cc
12	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 bend	compound:prt
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bend	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 drink	mark
17	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 bend	advcl
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 turned	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 turned	nsubj
20	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drink	advcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 perch	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 perch	det
23	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turned	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 turned	conj
26	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 began	xcomp
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 swimming	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		the horse			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
2	get	present				to the river result; soon property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to river=Result
3	bend down	infinitive		horse's head			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
4	drink	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	turn	past	horse		a perch		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into perch=Trajectory
6	begin	past	horse not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	swim away	gerund	horse not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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