Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 44

Then the pair of them, in their rage, fell upon that false serpent and almost killed him.

Who acts: pair, waters · What happens: fall, kill, rage · To what, where: false serpent, serpent

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 (pair, waters), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 pair	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pair	det
3	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pair	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rage	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 rage	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rage	nmod:poss
9	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pair	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pair	punct
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 serpent	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 serpent	det
14	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 serpent	amod
15	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 killed	cc
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 killed	advmod
18	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fell	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 killed	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the pair of waters and waters's rage		that false serpent		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon serpent=Location
2	kill	past	the pair of waters and waters's rage not said here	serpent		almost property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	rage		waters = water				nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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