Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 11

So the heifer began to graze, but the girl sat down and began to weep.

Who acts: heifer, girl · What happens: begin, graze, sit down, weep

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heifer, girl), 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	_	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heifer	det
3	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 graze	mark
6	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 weep	mark
16	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	begin	past	the heifer	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	graze	to-infinitive	the heifer not said here	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	past	the girl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	the girl not said here	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	weep	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	vn breathe-40.1.2 «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: «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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