Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 47
When they reached the forest she stopped and coiled herself round and round beneath a hazel-nut bush.
Who acts: men, wife · What happens: reach, stop, coil · To what, where: forest, 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 (men, wife), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stopped | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 coiled | cc |
| 9 | coiled | coil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stopped | conj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 coiled | obj |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 coiled | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 round | cc |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 round | conj |
| 14 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 19 bush | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bush | det |
| 16 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nut | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 hazel | punct |
| 18 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bush | compound |
| 19 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coiled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | men = man | the forest | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | wife | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | coil | past | wife not said here | wife | beneath a nut bush; round property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent herself=Material |
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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