Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 79

Meanwhile the brother dismounted from his horse and came with his dogs and the wolf to the hut, and the dogs began snuffing at the needle in the wall.

Who acts: brother, dogs · What happens: dismount, come, begin, snuff · To what, where: needle

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 (brother, 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	4 dismounted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dismounted	nsubj
4	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 horse	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dismounted	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dismounted	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 dogs	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dogs	nmod:poss
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wolf	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wolf	det
15	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dogs	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 hut	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hut	det
18	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wolf	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dogs	det
22	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dismounted	conj
24	snuffing	snuff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 began	xcomp
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 needle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 needle	det
27	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 snuffing	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 wall	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wall	det
30	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 snuffing	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dismounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	dismount	past	the brother		from serpent's horse; meanwhile property	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent from horse=Co-Patient
2	come	past	the brother not said here		with serpent's dogs and the wolf to the hut	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the dogs			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	snuff	gerund	the dogs not said here	the needle	in the wall	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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