Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 51

He went into the hut, and there were sitting an old man and an old woman. "

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

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	into	into	ADP	_	5 hut	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hut	det
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sitting	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sitting	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 sitting	expl
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sitting	aux
10	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 woman	cc
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 man	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sitting	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	dog			the hut			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hut=Initial_Location
2	sit	past · progressive	dog not said here	a old man and a old woman		there			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme

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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