Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 39
So Legless clung on to him with his arms and Armless with his feet, and the serpent flew away with them till he came to a spring. "
Who acts: serpent · What happens: cling, fly away, come
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 clung | advmod |
| 2 | Legless | legless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clung | amod |
| 3 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clung | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clung | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Armless | cc |
| 11 | Armless | Armless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 arms | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 arms | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 serpent | det |
| 18 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | nsubj |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clung | parataxis |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 flew | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flew | obl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 came | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flew | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 spring | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 spring | det |
| 28 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clung | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 clung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | participle | on Legless; with Legless's arms with Legless's feet and Armless | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme with arm=Co-Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly away | past | the serpent | with arms = arm; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | serpent | spring | 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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