Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 78

Then the serpent turned himself into a needle, and she took him up and stuck him in the wall.

Who acts: serpent, bear · What happens: turn, take up, stick · To what, where: serpent, needle, wall

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, bear), 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 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 turned	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 needle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 needle	det
8	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 took	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stuck	cc
16	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stuck	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 wall	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wall	det
20	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stuck	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	turn	past	the serpent	serpent		a needle	then	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into needle=Trajectory
2	take up	past	bear		serpent			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
3	stick	past	bear not said here	serpent		the wall		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in wall=Destination

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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