Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 37

So they came in, exchanged greetings, and sat down on a bench in the back corner.

Who acts: travellers · What happens: come in, exchange, sit down · To what, where: greetings, bench

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travellers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 exchanged	punct
6	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
7	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 exchanged	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 bench	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bench	det
14	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 corner	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 corner	det
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 corner	compound
18	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in	past	travellers = traveller				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	exchange	past	travellers = traveller not said here	greetings			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme
3	sit down	past	travellers = traveller not said here		a bench	in the back corner	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location

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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