Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 98

While she was sitting there drowned in bitter tears, the moujik came into the room.

Who acts: wife, moujik · What happens: sit, drown, come · To what, where: bitter tears, room

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, moujik), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 sitting	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sitting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 came	advcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sitting	advmod
6	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sitting	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 tears	case
8	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tears	amod
9	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drowned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moujik	det
12	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	wife	there	tree rules
2	drown	participle	wife not said here	bitter tears	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the moujik	the room	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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