--- title: And the serpent came and said to her, "How didst thou manage to jump… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And the serpent came and said to her, "How didst thou manage to jump over the sea?"--"Look, now!" said she, "we crossed over in this way. Who acts: serpent, thou, sister, we. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/57/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Voices At the Window, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/) / 57 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 57 And the serpent came and said to her, "How didst thou manage to jump over the sea?"--"Look, now!" said she, "we crossed over in this way. **Who acts:** serpent, thou, sister, we · **What happens:** come, say, do, manage, jump, look · **To what, where:** sister, sea, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, thou, sister, we), 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:pg29672:5:57 # text = And the serpent came and said to her, "How didst thou manage to jump over the sea?"--"Look, now!" said she, "we crossed over in this way. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 didst do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nsubj _ _ 14 manage manage VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 -- -- PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 over over ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the serpent | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the serpent *not said here* | | sister | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **manage** *in a quote* | present | thou | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **jump** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | the sea | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Trajectory | | 6 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | the serpent *not said here* | | | | now | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **say** *speech: express* | past | sister | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **cross over** *in a quote* | past | we | | | this way | | over *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/58/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/)