Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 55

Now, just as the father pitched his younger son into the sea, a great whale-fish was coming along and swallowed him, and into its maw he went.

Who acts: father, great whale fish · What happens: pitch, come along, swallow, go · To what, where: younger son, sea, father, maw

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 (father, great whale fish), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 pitched	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	7 pitched	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 pitched	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 father	det
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pitched	nsubj
7	pitched	pitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
9	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 son	amod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pitched	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pitched	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 coming	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fish	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fish	amod
17	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fish	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 whale	punct
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 coming	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 coming	aux
21	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 pitched	advcl
22	along	along	ADV	_	21 coming	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 swallowed	cc
24	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 coming	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 swallowed	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 maw	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 maw	nmod:poss
30	maw	maw	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pitched	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pitched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pitch	past	the father	father's younger son	the sea	now		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent son=Theme into sea=Destination
2	come along	past · progressive	a great whale fish				along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	swallow	past	a great whale fish not said here	father				vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	go	past	father		sea's maw			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into maw=Initial_Location

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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