Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 43
So they crossed over that sea right to the other side, and the serpent remained on his own side.
Who acts: woods, serpent · What happens: cross, remain · To what, where: sea, own side
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 crossed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obl |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 11 side | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remained | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 remained | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 serpent | det |
| 15 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remained | nsubj |
| 16 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossed | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 side | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 side | amod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remained | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | woods = wood | that sea | to the other side | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over sea=Initial_Location to side=Destination | |||
| 2 | remain | past | the serpent | serpent's own side | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
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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