Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 3

One day he went strolling about in the forest as usual, far from any village and the haunts of men, when he came upon a huge Serpent, which wriggled straight up to him and said, "I am going to eat thee on the spot!"

Who acts: gentleman, huge Serpent · What happens: go, stroll, come, wriggle, say, eat · To what, where: village, huge Serpent, gentleman, thee, spot · 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 (gentleman, huge 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	strolling	stroll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 went	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 forest	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strolling	obl
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 usual	case
11	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strolling	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 village	punct
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 village	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 village	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 village	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strolling	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 haunts	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 haunts	det
19	haunts	haunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 village	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 men	case
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 haunts	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 came	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 village	parataxis
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 Serpent	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 Serpent	det
28	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Serpent	amod
29	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wriggled	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 wriggled	nsubj
32	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 Serpent	acl:relcl
33	straight	straight	ADV	_	34 up	advmod
34	up	up	ADV	_	32 wriggled	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wriggled	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 came	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 going	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 going	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 going	nsubj
42	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 going	aux
43	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 said	ccomp
44	to	to	PART	_	45 eat	mark
45	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 going	xcomp
46	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	45 eat	obj
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 spot	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 spot	det
49	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 eat	obl
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	43 going	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 village	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	gentleman				day		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stroll	gerund	gentleman not said here			any village and the haunts of men		about the forest; as usual	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about forest=Trajectory
3	come	past	gentleman			a huge Serpent			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon serpent=Location
4	wriggle	past	a huge Serpent		gentleman				vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: express	past	gentleman not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go in a quote	present · progressive	gentleman						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here	thee		the spot			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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