Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 16
He did all the carrying himself, and loaded the wagon so heavily that it creaked beneath its burden.
Who acts: Serpent, wagon · What happens: do, carry, load, creak, burden · To what, where: Serpent, wagon, burden
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, wagon), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 carrying | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 carrying | det |
| 5 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 did | advcl |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 carrying | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loaded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 loaded | cc |
| 9 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wagon | det |
| 11 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loaded | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 heavily | advmod |
| 13 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 9 loaded | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 creaked | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 creaked | nsubj |
| 16 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 loaded | advcl |
| 17 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 19 burden | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 burden | nmod:poss |
| 19 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 creaked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Serpent | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | Serpent not said here | Serpent | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | load | past | Serpent not said here | the wagon | heavily property | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wagon=Theme | |||
| 4 | creak | past | wagon | wagon's burden | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath burden=Location | ||||
| 5 | burden | wagon | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=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.
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