Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 9

And no sooner did the brother enter the hut than the serpent said, "Well, we wanted flesh, and now flesh has come to us!"

Who acts: serpent, we · What happens: enter, say, want, come · To what, where: hut, flesh, us · 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, we), 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	_	4 did	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hut	det
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 enter	obj
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 said	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 serpent	det
12	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hut	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wanted	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 wanted	punct
16	Well	well	INTJ	_	19 wanted	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Well	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wanted	nsubj
19	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
20	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wanted	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flesh	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flesh	cc
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 flesh	advmod
24	flesh	flesh	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 come	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	enter	infinitive		the hut		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination
2	say speech: express	past	the serpent	the hut not said here		tree rules
3	want in a quote	past	we	flesh		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flesh=Theme
4	come in a quote	past · perfect · do-support			us	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location

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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