Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 15

He sat and sat, but nothing came, nothing came; he got drowsy, was nodding off, when his gun fell off his knees, and he awoke with a start and watched more warily.

Who acts: fool, nothing, gun · What happens: sit, come, get, nod off, fall off, awake · To what, where: knees

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fool, nothing, gun), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 got	nsubj
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
15	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 got	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 nodding	punct
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 nodding	aux
18	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 got	advcl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 nodding	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 fell	advmod
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 gun	nmod:poss
23	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 got	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	27 knees	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 knees	nmod:poss
27	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fell	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 awoke	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 awoke	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 awoke	nsubj
31	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 start	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 start	det
34	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 awoke	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 watched	cc
36	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 awoke	conj
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 warily	advmod
38	warily	warily	ADV	_	36 watched	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	fool			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	fool not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	nothing			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	nothing			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	past	fool		drowsy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	nod off	past · progressive	fool not said here			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	fall off	past	fool's gun	fool's knees		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient knee=Extent
8	awake	past	fool		with a start	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with start=Instrument
9	watch	past	fool not said here		warily property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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