Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 113

Whom have you been listening to?" said the serpent as he flew up to them. "

Who acts: Whom, you, serpent · What happens: have, listen, say, fly up · To what, where: serpent, Whom · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Whom, you, 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	Whom	whom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 listening	nsubj
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 listening	aux
5	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 have	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 listening	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 serpent	det
11	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 flew	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 flew	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flew	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	present	Whom			tree rules
2	listen	participle · progressive	you			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the serpent		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent serpent=Topic
4	fly up in a quote	past	serpent		Whom	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to they=Result

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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