Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 102

Now, as they had been growing all along, they were children no more, but a stately youth and a fair damsel; and the serpent took them up and carried them off.

Who acts: gimlet, serpent · What happens: grow, be, take up, carry off · To what, where: children, gimlet

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gimlet, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 growing	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 growing	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 growing	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 growing	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 growing	aux
7	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 along	advmod
9	along	along	ADV	_	7 growing	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 growing	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 children	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 children	cop
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 growing	obl
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 children	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 youth	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 youth	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 youth	det
19	stately	stately	ADV	_	20 youth	advmod
20	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 children	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 damsel	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 damsel	det
23	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 damsel	amod
24	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 youth	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 serpent	det
28	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 children	parataxis
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 took	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 carried	cc
33	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 took	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 carried	obj
35	off	off	ADP	_	33 carried	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 growing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect · progressive	gimlet		now	along property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	gimlet	children			tree rules
3	take up	past	the serpent	gimlet			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	carry off	past	the serpent not said here	gimlet			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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