Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 13
Then the serpent came flying up and fell upon them with open jaws. "
Who acts: serpent · What happens: come, fly up, fall
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 serpent | det |
| 3 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 came | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 flying | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 jaws | case |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 jaws | amod |
| 13 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fell | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the serpent | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly up | gerund | the serpent not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the serpent not said here | upon friends = friend; with open jaws | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
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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