Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 55

He went on and on till he came to a certain city, and in this city there was only one spring, and in this spring sat a dragon with twelve heads.

Who acts: Tsar · What happens: go, come, be, sit · To what, where: certain city, one spring, city, dragon

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 (Tsar), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 city	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 city	det
11	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 city	amod
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spring	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spring	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 city	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 city	det
17	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spring	obl
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 spring	cop
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 one	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 spring	nummod
22	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 spring	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 spring	det
27	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	obl
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dragon	det
30	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 heads	case
32	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 heads	nummod
33	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sat	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Tsar					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Tsar		a certain city			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
3	is a	past		one spring	this city			tree rules
4	sit	past	Tsar not said here	a dragon		spring	with twelve heads	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dragon=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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