Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 45

Then he sat down on the bench and again began sharpening his knife.

Who acts: bear · What happens: sit down, begin, sharpen · To what, where: 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 (bear), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bench	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bench	det
7	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
9	again	again	ADV	_	10 began	advmod
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
11	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 began	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 knife	nmod:poss
13	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sharpening	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit down	past	bear		the bench	then	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
2	begin	past	bear not said here			again	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sharpen	gerund	bear not said here	bear's 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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