Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 25
Wherever he looked there was everything quite spick and span and ready for use: none in the whole village had a better house than he.
Who acts: Serpent, spick · What happens: look, be, have · To what, where: everything, better house
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, spick), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 had | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 looked | obj |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 spick | advmod |
| 8 | spick | spick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 span | cc |
| 10 | span | span | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spick | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ready | cc |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 span | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 use | case |
| 14 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ready | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 none | punct |
| 16 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 21 had | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 village | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 village | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 village | amod |
| 20 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 none | nmod |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 house | amod |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 he | case |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 house | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Serpent | everything | wherever property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Attribute | |||
| 2 | be | past | Serpent not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | spick and span | a better house | than Serpent | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
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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