Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 46
The prince arrived at the house, where eleven serpents were sitting down to dinner.
Who acts: prince, eleven serpents · What happens: arrive, sit down · To what, where: house
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 (prince, eleven serpents), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sitting | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 sitting | advmod |
| 9 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 serpents | nummod |
| 10 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sitting | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sitting | aux |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 arrived | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 sitting | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 dinner | case |
| 15 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the prince | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past · progressive | eleven serpents | to dinner; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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