Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 36

But look! the serpent himself is coming!"

Who acts: you, serpent · What happens: look, come

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 (you, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 look	cc
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 serpent	det
5	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coming	nsubj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 coming	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	aux
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 look	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	come	present · progressive	the serpent						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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