Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 81

So they all went out and saw two serpents bringing out the horse, and it was as much as the pair of them could do to hold its head, so fierce and strong it was.

Who acts: guests, two serpents, horse, pair · What happens: go out, see, bring out, be, do, hold · To what, where: two serpents, horse, head

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 (guests, two serpents, horse, pair), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 saw	cc
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 serpents	nummod
9	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	obj
10	bringing	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 serpents	acl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 bringing	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bringing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 much	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 much	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 much	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 much	cop
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 do	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pair	det
22	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 do	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pair	nmod
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 much	acl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 hold	mark
28	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 do	advcl
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hold	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fierce	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 fierce	advmod
33	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 strong	cc
35	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fierce	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 was	nsubj
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past	guests = guest			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	guests = guest not said here	two serpents		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer serpent=Stimulus
3	bring out	gerund	two serpents not said here	the horse		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
4	is	past	horse		much property	tree rules
5	do	could	the pair of guests			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hold	to-infinitive	the pair of guests not said here	horse's head		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
7	be	past	horse			vn exist-47.1 «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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