Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 24
Thereupon the serpent's tooth flew out of the hare and fastened itself in the upper branch, and both fox and hare scampered back out of the forest alive and well.
Who acts: tooth, fox · What happens: fly out, fasten, scamper back · To what, where: hare, tooth, upper branch, forest
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tooth, fox), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 6 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 serpent | det |
| 3 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 serpent | case |
| 5 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 hare | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hare | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hare | det |
| 10 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fastened | cc |
| 12 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 13 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 fastened | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 branch | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 branch | det |
| 16 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 branch | amod |
| 17 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fastened | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 scampered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 scampered | cc |
| 20 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 fox | det |
| 21 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 scampered | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hare | cc |
| 23 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fox | conj |
| 24 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 flew | conj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 scampered | advmod |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 forest | det |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 scampered | obl |
| 30 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 scampered | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 well | cc |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 alive | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly out | past | the serpent's tooth | the hare | thereupon property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hare=Theme | |||
| 2 | fasten | past | the serpent's tooth not said here | tooth | the upper branch | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | |||
| 3 | scamper back | participle | both fox and hare | the forest | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out forest=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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