Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 142

But just as the pike was almost up with it, the perch gave a sudden twist and stuck out its spiky fins and turned its tail toward the pike, so that the pike could not lay hold of it.

Who acts: pike · What happens: give, stick out, turn, not lay, hold · To what, where: sudden twist, tail, hold, 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 (pike), 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	_	14 gave	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 pike	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 pike	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pike	det
5	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 up	cop
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 up	advmod
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 pike	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 up	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 perch	det
13	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 twist	det
16	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 twist	amod
17	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fins	cc
19	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 fins	amod
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 stuck	compound:prt
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 fins	nmod:poss
22	spiky	spiky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fins	amod
23	fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 twist	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 turned	cc
25	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gave	conj
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tail	nmod:poss
27	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turned	obj
28	toward	toward	ADP	_	30 pike	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pike	det
30	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turned	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lay	punct
32	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 lay	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 so	fixed
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pike	det
35	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lay	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 lay	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 lay	advmod
38	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 turned	conj
39	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lay	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 hold	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the pike	a sudden twist and perch's stuck spiky fins		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Theme
2	stick out	participle				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	turn	past	the pike not said here	perch's tail	toward the pike	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tail=Theme toward pike=Trajectory
4	not lay	could	the pike	hold of perch		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
5	hold			perch		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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