Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 24

The man could not understand it; he could only walk about and wonder at it.

Who acts: man, Serpent · What happens: not understand, walk, wonder · To what, where: hut

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 (man, 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understand	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 understand	advmod
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 understand	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 walk	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walk	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 walk	aux
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 walk	advmod
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 understand	parataxis
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 walk	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wonder	cc
14	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 walk	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wonder	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not understand	could	the man	hut			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	walk	could	Serpent			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wonder speech: ask	infinitive	Serpent not said here		hut		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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