Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 43

So he thrust a stick in, and no sooner had it touched the water than it was consumed as though by fire.

Who acts: serpent, stick, fire · What happens: thrust in, have, touch, consume · To what, where: stick, water

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, stick, fire), 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 thrust	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thrust	nsubj
3	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrust	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	3 thrust	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 sooner	det
10	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 had	advmod
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thrust	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 touched	nsubj
13	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touched	obj
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 consumed	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 consumed	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 consumed	aux:pass
19	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 touched	advcl
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 though	case
21	though	though	ADV	_	19 consumed	advmod
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 fire	case
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 consumed	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	thrust in	past	serpent	a stick		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	have	past	serpent not said here		soon property	tree rules
3	touch	past	stick	the water		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-Theme
4	consume	past · passive	fire	stick	though property	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset

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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