Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 74

Now the serpent and the false sister saw him coming from afar, and three dogs trotting behind him.

Who acts: serpent, Tsar, three dogs · What happens: see, come, trot · To what, where: Tsar, afar

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, Tsar, three dogs), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sister	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sister	det
6	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 serpent	conj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 saw	xcomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 afar	case
12	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coming	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 trotting	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 trotting	cc
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 dogs	nummod
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 trotting	nsubj
17	trotting	trot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 saw	conj
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 trotting	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the serpent and the false sister	Tsar		now		tree rules
2	come	gerund	Tsar not said here		afar			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from afar=Initial_Location
3	trot	gerund	three dogs				behind Tsar	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory

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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