Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 111

And, in truth, the horse's tail was already singed to a coal, for the serpent was hard behind them, blazing like fire.

Who acts: serpent · What happens: singe, be, blaze · To what, where: truth

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 singed	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 truth	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 truth	case
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 singed	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tail	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tail	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 horse	case
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 truth	conj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 singed	aux:pass
11	already	already	ADV	_	12 singed	advmod
12	singed	singe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 coal	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 coal	det
15	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 singed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 blazing	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	23 them	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 serpent	det
19	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 them	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 them	cop
21	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 them	advmod
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 blazing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 blazing	punct
25	blazing	blaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 singed	advcl
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 fire	case
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 blazing	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 singed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	singe	past · passive		truth and the horse's tail	to a coal	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	the serpent		for truth; hard property	tree rules
3	blaze	gerund			like fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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