Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 75

And the serpent said to her, "What a sly, wily one it is!

Who acts: serpent, afar · What happens: say, be · To what, where: dog, sly wily one · 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, afar), 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 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 What	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 What	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 said	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 one	det
11	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sly	punct
13	wily	wily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 What	appos
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 is	nsubj
16	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 one	acl:relcl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the serpent		dog				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	be in a quote	present	afar	a sly wily one not said here					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=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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