Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 42
The serpent came up to the edge of the sea; but there he had to stop, for he had nothing to run upon.
Who acts: serpent · What happens: come up, have, stop, run · To what, where: edge, nothing
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 serpent | det |
| 2 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 edge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 edge | det |
| 7 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 edge | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 had | expl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stop | mark |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 had | case |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | conj |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 had | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 run | mark |
| 24 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 nothing | acl |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 run | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the serpent | the edge of the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | serpent | there | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | serpent not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | have | past | serpent | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 5 | run | to-infinitive | serpent not said here | nothing not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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