Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 28
They sat down, and remained sitting there some time.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: sit down, remain, sit
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 remained | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 remained | cc |
| 6 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 remained | xcomp |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sitting | advmod |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | eyes = eye | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | remain | past | eyes = eye not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | eyes = eye not said here | there | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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