Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 94

Then all the serpents wriggled off as fast as they could.

Who acts: serpents · What happens: wriggle off

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 (serpents), 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	5 wriggled	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 serpents	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 serpents	det
4	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wriggled	nsubj
5	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 wriggled	compound:prt
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wriggled	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 could	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 could	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fast	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wriggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wriggle off	past	all serpents				then	fast property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=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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