Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 143

Katoma remained sitting on the stump one day, two days, three days, without anything to eat or drink.

Who acts: Katoma · What happens: remain, sit, eat, drink · To what, where: stump

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (Katoma), 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	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 remained	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 stump	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stump	det
6	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 days	punct
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sitting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 days	punct
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 days	nummod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 days	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 anything	punct
16	without	without	ADP	_	17 anything	case
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 sitting	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 anything	acl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 drink	cc
21	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 eat	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	Katoma				tree rules
2	sit	gerund	Katoma not said here	the stump	day	without anything	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stump=Location
3	eat	to-infinitive	Katoma not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	infinitive	Katoma not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «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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