Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 206

But Tremsin sat upon the sea-shore till he saw the large white billow bounding in, and behind the billow came his own horse, and behind his own horse came the thrice-terrible charger of the thrice-lovely Nastasia, with the whole herd at his heels.

Who acts: Tremsin, SEA, large white billow · What happens: sit, see, bound, come · To what, where: sea shore, large white billow, own horse, billow, thrice terrible charger

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tremsin, SEA, large white billow), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 sat	cc
2	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 shore	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shore	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shore	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sea	punct
8	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 saw	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 billow	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 billow	amod
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 billow	amod
15	billow	billow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
16	bounding	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 billow	acl
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 bounding	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 billow	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 billow	det
22	billow	billow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 horse	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 horse	amod
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 came	cc
29	behind	behind	ADP	_	32 horse	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 horse	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 horse	amod
32	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 charger	det
35	thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 charger	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 thrice	punct
37	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 charger	amod
38	charger	charger	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	44 Nastasia	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Nastasia	det
41	thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 lovely	amod
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 thrice	punct
43	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 Nastasia	amod
44	Nastasia	Nastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 charger	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 herd	punct
46	with	with	ADP	_	49 herd	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 herd	det
48	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 herd	amod
49	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
50	at	at	ADP	_	52 heels	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 heels	nmod:poss
52	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 herd	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Tremsin		the sea shore		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shore=Location
2	see	past	SEA	the large white billow			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer billow=Stimulus
3	bound	gerund	the large white billow not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	Tremsin not said here	SEA's own horse	the billow		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme
5	come	past	Tremsin not said here	the thrice terrible charger of the lovely Nastasia		behind SEA's own horse; with the whole herd at SEA's heels	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind horse=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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