Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 93

Look!" said the serpent, "if there are not four running behind him!

Who acts: four · What happens: look, say, be, run · To what, where: serpent · 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 (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	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 serpent	det
6	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 running	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 running	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 are	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 are	expl
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 running	advcl
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 four	advmod
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 running	nsubj
14	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 said	advcl
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 running	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the serpent			tree rules
3	be a condition, not said to happen	present	four not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	gerund	four			behind serpent	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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