Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 57

And the serpent came and said to her, "How didst thou manage to jump over the sea?"--"Look, now!" said she, "we crossed over in this way.

Who acts: serpent, thou, sister, we · What happens: come, say, do, manage, jump, look · To what, where: sister, sea, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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, thou, sister, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
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	29 said	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 didst	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 didst	punct
11	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 didst	advmod
12	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 manage	nsubj
14	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 didst	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 jump	mark
16	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 manage	xcomp
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jump	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 manage	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 manage	punct
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 Look	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Look	punct
24	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 now	punct
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 Look	advmod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 Look	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Look	punct
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 crossed	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 crossed	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 crossed	nsubj
34	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 said	conj
35	over	over	ADV	_	34 crossed	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 way	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 way	det
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crossed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the serpent					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the serpent not said here	sister				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	do in a quote	past						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	manage in a quote	present	thou					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	jump in a quote	to-infinitive	thou not said here		the sea			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Trajectory
6	look in a quote	infinitive	the serpent not said here			now		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	say speech: express	past	sister					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	cross over in a quote	past	we		this way		over property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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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