Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 61

Now some huntsmen happened to be going along the beach at that time, and one of them saw the whale, and said, "Look, my brethren! we have been hunting jays and crows and shot nothing, and lo! what a monstrous fish lies all about the shore!

Who acts: huntsmen, one, we, monstrous fish · What happens: happen, go, see, say, look, hunt · To what, where: beach, whale, brethren, jays, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (huntsmen, one, we, monstrous 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	4 happened	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 huntsmen	det
3	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 going	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
8	along	along	ADP	_	10 beach	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beach	det
10	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 time	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 saw	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nmod
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 whale	det
21	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Look	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Look	punct
27	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brethren	punct
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brethren	nmod:poss
30	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Look	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 Look	punct
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 hunting	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 hunting	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 hunting	aux
35	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 Look	advcl
36	jays	jay	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hunting	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 crows	cc
38	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 jays	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 shot	cc
40	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 hunting	conj
41	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	40 shot	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 what	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 what	cc
44	lo	lo	INTJ	_	46 what	discourse
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	44 lo	punct
46	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	parataxis
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 fish	det
48	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 fish	amod
49	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 lies	nsubj
50	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 what	acl:relcl
51	all	all	ADV	_	54 shore	advmod
52	about	about	ADP	_	54 shore	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 shore	det
54	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 lies	obl
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	some huntsmen			now		tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive · progressive	some huntsmen not said here		the beach	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along beach=Initial_Location
3	see	past	one of huntsmen	the whale				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whale=Stimulus
4	say speech: express	past	one of huntsmen not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	look in a quote	infinitive		my brethren				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	hunt in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	we	jays and crows				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jay=Theme
7	shoot in a quote	past	we not said here	nothing				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
8	lie in a quote	present	a monstrous fish				about the shore	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about shore=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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