Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 31

Then the serpent came up to the forest and began to gnaw at it; and at last he gnawed his way right through it.

Who acts: serpent · What happens: come up, begin, gnaw · To what, where: forest, way, last

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	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 gnaw	mark
12	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gnaw	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 gnawed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gnawed	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gnawed	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gnawed	nsubj
20	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gnawed	obj
23	right	right	ADV	_	25 it	advmod
24	through	through	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gnawed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the serpent		the forest	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	the serpent not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	gnaw	to-infinitive	the serpent not said here				at forest	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient
4	gnaw	past	serpent	serpent's way	last		through way	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient

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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