Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 23

He rose high above the woods and flew after them--oh! how fast he did fly!

Who acts: serpent · What happens: rise, fly · To what, where: woods

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 rose	advmod
4	above	above	ADP	_	6 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rose	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flew	cc
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flew	obl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 oh	punct
12	oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 rose	discourse
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 oh	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 fast	advmod
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 fly	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fly	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fly	aux
18	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rose	advcl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	serpent	the woods		high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above wood=Location
2	fly	past	serpent not said here		after woods = wood		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly	past · do-support	serpent			fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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