Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 92

So he set off home, and the serpent and his sister saw that four were now trotting behind him. "

Who acts: Hail, serpent, four · What happens: set off, see, trot · To what, where: home · 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 (Hail, serpent, four), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 serpent	det
9	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sister	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 serpent	conj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 trotting	mark
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 trotting	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 trotting	aux
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 trotting	advmod
18	trotting	trot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 saw	ccomp
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 trotting	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	Hail	home			vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition home=Patient
2	see	past	the serpent and Hail's sister				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	trot	past · progressive	four		now	behind Hail	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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