Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 61

Then the serpent crossed over to her side, and they walked to the hut together and consulted as to the best way of destroying her brother and removing him from God's fair world.

Who acts: serpent, waters, best way · What happens: cross over, walk, consult, destroy, remove · To what, where: side, hut, brother, serpent, fair world

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, waters, best way), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 crossed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	nsubj
4	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 crossed	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 side	nmod:poss
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 walked	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walked	nsubj
12	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crossed	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 hut	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hut	det
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walked	obl
16	together	together	ADV	_	12 walked	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 consulted	cc
18	consulted	consult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 walked	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	23 way	case
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 way	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 consulted	obl
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 destroying	mark
25	destroying	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 way	acl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brother	nmod:poss
27	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 destroying	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 removing	cc
29	removing	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 destroying	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 removing	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	35 world	case
32	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 world	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 God	case
34	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 world	amod
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 removing	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross over	past	the serpent		sister's side	then	over property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location
2	walk	past	waters = water		the hut		together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination
3	consult	participle	waters = water not said here				as the best way	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as way=Value
4	destroy	gerund	the best way not said here	sister's brother				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
5	remove	gerund	the best way not said here	serpent	God's fair world			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from world=Source

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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