Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 52

Presently they came to the sea, and all three stood still and looked at it, and watched the fishes play.

Who acts: oaks, three, fishes · What happens: come, stand, look, watch, play · To what, where: sea

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oaks, three, fishes), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stood	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 three	det
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
12	still	still	ADV	_	11 stood	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 watched	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 watched	cc
19	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fishes	det
21	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 play	nsubj
22	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 watched	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	oaks = oak	the sea		presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
2	stand	past	all three		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	all three not said here			at sea	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	watch	past	oaks = oak not said here				tree rules
5	play	present	the fishes				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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