Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 42

So when he had got them all safely, the old man sat down on a bench before the cellar and began sharpening a knife.

Who acts: hare, old man · What happens: get, sit down, begin, sharpen · To what, where: man, bench, knife

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, old man), 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	_	5 got	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 got	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 them	nmod:unmarked
8	safely	safely	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	parataxis
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 bench	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bench	det
17	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
18	before	before	ADP	_	20 cellar	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cellar	det
20	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 began	cc
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
23	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 began	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 knife	det
25	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sharpening	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	hare	man			safely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	sit down	past	the old man		a bench	before the cellar		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
3	begin	past	the old man not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	sharpen	gerund	the old man not said here	a knife				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Patient

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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