Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 15
He went out into the field to bring home his master's corn, and marvellously he managed it.
Who acts: Serpent · What happens: go out, bring, manage · To what, where: field, corn, master
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Serpent), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bring | mark |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 bring | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 corn | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 master | case |
| 13 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 managed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 managed | cc |
| 16 | marvellously | marvellously | ADV | _ | 18 managed | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 managed | nsubj |
| 18 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 managed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Serpent | the field | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | Serpent not said here | Serpent's master's corn | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent corn=Theme | |||
| 3 | manage | past | Serpent | master | marvellously property | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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