Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 21

The labourer forthwith took and married her; and now he began to look out for a place to build him a hut upon.

Who acts: labourer, Serpent · What happens: take, marry, begin, look out, build · To what, where: lady, hut, Serpent

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 (labourer, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 labourer	det
2	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
3	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 married	cc
6	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 married	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 began	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 look	compound:prt
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 place	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 build	mark
20	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 look	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 build	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hut	det
23	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 build	obj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 build	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the labourer				forthwith property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	marry	past	the labourer not said here	lady				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	begin	past	Serpent			now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	look out	to-infinitive	Serpent not said here				for a place	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for place=Theme
5	build	to-infinitive	Serpent not said here	a hut	Serpent			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary hut=Product

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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