Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 186

After witnessing many strange sights, the bridegroom is told to sit down and wait till his guide returns.

Who acts: bridegroom, guide · What happens: witness, tell, sit down, wait, return · To what, where: many strange sights, bridegroom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (bridegroom, guide), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 witnessing	mark
2	witnessing	witness	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 told	advcl
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sights	amod
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sights	amod
5	sights	sight	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 witnessing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 witnessing	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bridegroom	det
8	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sit	mark
12	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sit	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wait	cc
15	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sit	conj
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 returns	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 guide	nmod:poss
18	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 returns	nsubj
19	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wait	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	witness	gerund		many strange sights	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Beneficiary
2	tell speech: assert	present · passive		the bridegroom	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bridegroom not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wait	infinitive	the bridegroom not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	return	present	bridegroom's guide		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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