Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 56

And it was so that when any went to draw water from this well the dragon rose up and ate them, and there was no other place whence that city could draw its water.

Who acts: dragon, city · What happens: go, draw, rise up, eat, be · To what, where: water, this, dogs, other place

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 (dragon, city), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 was	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 was	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 place	cop
4	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 went	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 went	advmod
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 went	advmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 draw	mark
10	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	xcomp
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 draw	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 this	case
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 draw	obl
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 rose	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dragon	det
16	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rose	nsubj
17	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 draw	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 rose	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ate	cc
20	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rose	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ate	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 was	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 place	cop
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 place	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 place	amod
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
29	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	33 draw	advmod
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 city	det
31	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 draw	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 draw	aux
33	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 place	acl:relcl
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 water	nmod:poss
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 draw	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	draw	to-infinitive		water	this		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from this=Initial_Location
3	rise up	past	the dragon			well property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	past	the dragon not said here	dogs = dog			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	is a	past		no other place			tree rules
6	draw	could	that city	dragon's water		whence property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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