Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 42

Out came the serpent to eat him, but he said to his dogs and his beasts, "Vovchok!

Who acts: serpent · What happens: come, eat, say · To what, where: serpent, dogs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent), 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	Out	out	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 serpent	det
4	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 dogs	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dogs	nmod:poss
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beasts	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 beasts	nmod:poss
17	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dogs	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Vovchok	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Vovchok	punct
20	Vovchok	Vovchok	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 dogs	nmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the serpent			out property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	the serpent not said here	serpent			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	serpent		serpent's dogs Vovchok and serpent's beasts		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient

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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