Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 175

He waved his kerchief, and immediately a steep mountain--oh, so steep!--lay betwixt them.

Who acts: foal · What happens: wave, lay · To what, where: kerchief

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foal), 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 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 kerchief	nmod:poss
4	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mountain	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mountain	cc
7	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	10 mountain	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mountain	det
9	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mountain	amod
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	parataxis
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 oh	punct
12	oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 mountain	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 steep	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 steep	advmod
15	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 waved	parataxis
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 steep	punct
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
18	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waved	advcl
19	betwixt	betwixt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lay	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 betwixt	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	foal	foal's kerchief					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kerchief=Patient
2	lay	infinitive	foal not said here					betwixt property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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