Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 34

There was no sign of his wife, but a huge serpent was just coiling itself round and round and settling down in the middle of the pillow.

Who acts: sign, huge serpent · What happens: be, coil, settle down, sign · To what, where: chamber, middle, wife

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 (sign, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sign	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 coiling	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 coiling	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 serpent	det
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 serpent	amod
12	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coiling	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 coiling	aux
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 coiling	advmod
15	coiling	coil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
16	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 coiling	obj
17	round	round	ADV	_	15 coiling	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 round	cc
19	round	round	ADV	_	17 round	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 settling	cc
21	settling	settle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 coiling	conj
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 settling	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 middle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 middle	det
25	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 settling	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 pillow	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pillow	det
28	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 middle	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no sign of sign's wife		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	coil	past · progressive	a huge serpent	chamber		round property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent itself=Material
3	settle down	gerund	a huge serpent not said here		the middle of the pillow	down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	sign			sign's wife			nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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