Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 46

Then she crept off, and the man followed her, weeping and mourning all the time as for one already dead.

Who acts: wife, man · What happens: creep off, follow, weep, mourn · To what, where: 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 (wife, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 crept	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crept	nsubj
3	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 crept	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 followed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 followed	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 followed	nsubj
9	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 followed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weeping	punct
12	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 followed	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mourning	cc
14	mourning	mourn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 weeping	conj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 time	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mourning	obj
18	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	22 dead	case
19	for	for	ADP	_	18 as	fixed
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 dead	nsubj
21	already	already	ADV	_	22 dead	advmod
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mourning	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	creep off	past	wife		then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow	past	the man	wife			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	weep	gerund	the man not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mourn	gerund	the man not said here		time	as dead	vn marvel-31.3 «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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