Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 20

Then he went out by himself into the field, burnt the sheaf, just as the Serpent had told him, and immediately a lovely lady leapt out of it.

Who acts: Serpent, lovely lady · What happens: go out, burnt, tell, leapt out · To what, where: field, sheaf, corn · Speech: someone speaks here

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, lovely lady), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 went	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 burnt	punct
11	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sheaf	det
13	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burnt	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
15	just	just	ADV	_	20 told	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 told	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Serpent	det
18	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 told	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 told	aux
20	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 burnt	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 leapt	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 leapt	cc
24	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	27 lady	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 lady	det
26	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lady	amod
27	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leapt	nsubj
28	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	31 it	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 leapt	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Serpent			the field	then	by Serpent	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burnt	past		the sheaf					tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the Serpent		corn				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	leapt out	past	a lovely lady	field					tree rules

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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