Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 108

Presently the serpent awoke, looked all round him, and could see nothing till he had got up out of the reeds in which he lay, when he saw them in the far distance, and gave chase.

Who acts: serpent · What happens: awake, look, see, get up, lie, give · To what, where: nothing, reeds, chase

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 (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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 awoke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 awoke	nsubj
4	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 awoke	conj
7	all	all	ADV	_	9 him	advmod
8	round	round	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 awoke	conj
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 see	obj
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 got	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 got	aux
18	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 see	ccomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 got	compound:prt
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 reeds	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 reeds	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 reeds	det
23	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 got	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 lay	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 reeds	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 saw	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lay	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saw	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 distance	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 distance	det
35	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 distance	amod
36	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 gave	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 gave	cc
39	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 awoke	conj
40	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 gave	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	awake	past	the serpent			presently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	the serpent not said here			round serpent	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme
3	see	could	the serpent not said here	nothing			tree rules
4	get up	past · perfect	serpent		the reeds		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out reed=Destination
5	lie	past	serpent		the reeds		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
6	see	past	serpent	reeds = reed		in the far distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
7	give	past	the serpent not said here	chase			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=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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