Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 39

Meantime the Smith sat there, thinking, "What's to be done? how's one to save one's life?"

Who acts: Meantime · What happens: sit, think, do, be, save · To what, where: one, life · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Meantime), 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	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Smith	det
3	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 done	obj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	14 done	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 done	aux:pass
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sat	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 one	advmod
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 one	cop
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sat	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 save	mark
20	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sat	advcl
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 life	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 one	case
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 save	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	Meantime		there	tree rules
2	think speech: other	gerund	Meantime not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	present · passive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
4	is a in a quote	present		one		tree rules
5	save in a quote	to-infinitive	Meantime not said here	one's life		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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: «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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