Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 190

Thereupon he began to weep and to disquiet himself, and then he sat down upon a stone and went to sleep.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: begin, weep, disquiet, sit down, go · To what, where: Prince, stone, sleep

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 weep	mark
5	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 disquiet	cc
7	to	to	PART	_	8 disquiet	mark
8	disquiet	disquiet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 weep	conj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 disquiet	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 sat	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 stone	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stone	det
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 sleep	case
22	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Prince				thereupon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	weep	to-infinitive	Prince not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	disquiet	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	Prince				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
4	sit down	past	Prince		a stone	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stone=Location
5	go	past	Prince not said here		sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=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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