Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 14

Ah-ha!" cried he, with a snort, "you've come to grief again, eh?

Who acts: serpent, you · What happens: cry, come · To what, where: grief

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, you), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 cried	discourse
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ha	punct
3	ha	ha	INTJ	_	1 Ah	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 snort	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 snort	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 snort	det
11	snort	snort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
15	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 cried	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 grief	case
18	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eh	punct
21	eh	eh	INTJ	_	6 cried	discourse
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	serpent					with a snort	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with snort=Theme
2	come	present · perfect	you			grief	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grief=Initial_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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