Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 9
Now when they got home she took out the serpent's tooth which she had hidden about her, and put it beneath his pillow on the bed whereon he slept.
Who acts: Tsarevko, horse, brother · What happens: get, take out, hide, put, sleep · To what, where: tooth, bed
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 (Tsarevko, horse, brother), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 took | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 took | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 serpent | det |
| 10 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 serpent | case |
| 12 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hidden | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hidden | aux |
| 16 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tooth | acl:relcl |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hidden | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 took | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 25 pillow | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 25 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 bed | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bed | det |
| 28 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 29 | whereon | whereon | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 slept | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 slept | nsubj |
| 31 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Tsarevko | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take out | past | horse | the serpent's tooth | now | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | |||
| 3 | hide | past · perfect · passive | the serpent's tooth | about horse | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient about she=Location | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | horse not said here | tooth | the bed | beneath brother's pillow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bed=Destination | ||
| 5 | sleep | past | brother | whereon property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/9/