Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 33
But when the serpent had gnawed his way through the forest, he again pursued them; and again they felt a burning.
Who acts: serpent, woods · What happens: gnaw, pursue, feel · To what, where: serpent, forest, woods, burning
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, woods), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 pursued | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 gnawed | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 serpent | det |
| 4 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gnawed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gnawed | aux |
| 6 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 pursued | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gnawed | obj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gnawed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gnawed | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pursued | nsubj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 pursued | advmod |
| 15 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pursued | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 felt | cc |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 felt | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pursued | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 burning | det |
| 23 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 felt | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gnaw | past · perfect · passive | the serpent | the forest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pursue | past | serpent | woods = wood | again | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | past | woods = wood | a burning | again | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burning=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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