--- title: Presently the serpent awoke, looked all round him, and could see not… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Presently the serpent awoke, looked all round him, and could see nothing till he had got up out of the reeds in which he lay, when he saw them in the far distance, and gave chase. Who acts: serpent. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:4:108 # text = Presently the serpent awoke, looked all round him, and could see nothing till he had got up out of the reeds in which he lay, when he saw them in the far distance, and gave chase. 1 Presently presently ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 all all ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 round round ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 13 obj _ _ 15 till till SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 out out ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 reeds reed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 obl _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 40 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **awake** | past | the serpent | | | | | presently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | past | the serpent *not said here* | | | | | round serpent | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme | | 3 | **see** | could | the serpent *not said here* | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get up** | past · perfect | serpent | | | the reeds | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out reed=Destination | | 5 | **lie** | past | serpent | | | the reeds | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | | 6 | **see** | past | serpent | reeds *= reed* | | | | in the far distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 7 | **give** | past | the serpent *not said here* | chase | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/109/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/)