Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 28

The serpent, however, managed to gnaw his way through the wood, and then flew after them again.

What happens: manage, gnaw, fly · To what, where: serpent, way, wood

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: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 serpent	det
2	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 managed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 serpent	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 managed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 gnaw	mark
8	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 managed	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod:poss
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gnaw	obj
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gnaw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flew	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 flew	advmod
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 managed	parataxis
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	obl
20	again	again	ADV	_	17 flew	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	participle · passive	the serpent			however property	tree rules
2	gnaw	to-infinitive	serpent's way	the wood			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
3	fly	past			after woods = wood; then; again		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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