Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 4

The eldest went first, and sat and sat and watched and watched till he was tired of watching, and fell asleep.

Who acts: eldest, father · What happens: go, sit, watch, be, fall

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 (eldest, father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sat	cc
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 watched	cc
11	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 watched	cc
13	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 tired	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tired	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tired	cop
17	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 watched	xcomp
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 watching	mark
19	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 tired	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fell	cc
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fell	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	past	the eldest	first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	past			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	watch	past			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	father	tired property	tree rules
7	watch	gerund	father not said here		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
8	fall	past	the eldest not said here	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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