Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 8

When the serpent awoke he missed them, and raising his head above the reeds and rushes, saw them flying far away, and set off after them at full speed. "

Who acts: serpent, friends · What happens: awake, miss, raise, see, fly, set off · To what, where: friends, head, reeds, full speed

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, friends), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 awoke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 awoke	nsubj
4	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 missed	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 missed	nsubj
6	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 missed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 raising	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 raising	cc
10	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 missed	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 raising	obj
13	above	above	ADP	_	15 reeds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 reeds	det
15	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 raising	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rushes	cc
17	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reeds	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 missed	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	obj
21	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 saw	xcomp
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 away	advmod
23	away	away	ADV	_	21 flying	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 set	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 set	cc
26	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	conj
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 set	compound:prt
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 speed	case
31	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 speed	amod
32	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 missed	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 missed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	the serpent					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	miss	past	serpent	friends = friend				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	raise	gerund	serpent not said here	serpent's head	the reeds and rushes			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme above reed=Destination
4	see	past	serpent not said here	friends = friend				tree rules
5	fly	gerund	friends = friend not said here				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	set off	past	serpent not said here		full speed	after friends = friend		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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