Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 33
They rushed up to her, and saw the serpent already nestling beneath the cushions.
Who acts: sparks · What happens: rush up, see, nestle · To what, where: Tsarivna, serpent, cushions
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparks), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 rushed | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rushed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 serpent | det |
| 10 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 nestling | advmod |
| 12 | nestling | nestle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | advcl |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 cushions | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cushions | det |
| 15 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 nestling | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush up | past | sparks = spark | Tsarivna | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sparks = spark not said here | the serpent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer serpent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | nestle | gerund | sparks = spark not said here | the cushions | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath cushion=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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