Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 69
And so they remained sitting there till the cocks began to crow.
Who acts: people, cocks · What happens: remain, sit, begin, crow
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 (people, cocks), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 remained | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 remained | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 remained | xcomp |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sitting | advmod |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 began | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cocks | det |
| 9 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 crow | mark |
| 12 | crow | crow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | people not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the cocks | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | crow | to-infinitive | the cocks not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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