Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 185

When he drew near, he saw that the Warlock was sitting by the fire, sewing boots.

Who acts: property, Warlock · What happens: draw, see, sit, sew · To what, where: boots · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (property, Warlock), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 drew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	advcl
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 sitting	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Warlock	det
10	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sitting	aux
12	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 saw	ccomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sewing	punct
17	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sitting	conj
18	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sewing	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	past	property		near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	property			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	sit	past · progressive	the Warlock		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
4	sew	gerund	the Warlock not said here	boots		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Product

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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