Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 22
The serpent flew over the sea early yesterday morning and dropped in it his daughter's ring.
Who acts: serpent · What happens: fly, drop · To what, where: ring, sea
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 serpent | det |
| 2 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 morning | nsubj |
| 7 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 morning | amod |
| 8 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 morning | compound |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dropped | cc |
| 11 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flew | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dropped | obl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ring | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 daughter | case |
| 17 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the serpent | serpent's daughter's ring | morning | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme | |||
| 2 | drop | participle | the serpent not said here | sea | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory |
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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