Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 39
Over this bridge they galloped, and by the time they had done so, the serpent reached the sea.
Who acts: woods, serpent · What happens: gallop, do, reach · To what, where: bridge, time, sea
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 (woods, 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 3 bridge | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 bridge | det |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 galloped | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 galloped | nsubj |
| 5 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reached | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 reached | cc |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 time | acl:relcl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 done | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 serpent | det |
| 17 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | nsubj |
| 18 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 galloped | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop | past | woods = wood | this bridge | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | woods = wood | the time not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | the serpent | the sea | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=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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