Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 38

He went up to that hut, and in front of it were sitting an old man and an old woman.

Who acts: dog · What happens: go up, sit · To what, where: old man, front

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 hut	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 hut	det
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sitting	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sitting	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 front	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sitting	aux
14	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 woman	cc
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	dog					to that hut	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sit	past · progressive	dog not said here	a old man and a old woman		front of hut			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme in front=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: «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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