Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 42

Sit down now!" said Oh to his new labourer, "and have a bit of something to eat."

Who acts: you · What happens: sit down, say, have, eat · To what, where: new labourer, bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Sit	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Sit	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	acl
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 said	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 labourer	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 labourer	nmod:poss
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 labourer	amod
11	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 labourer	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 labourer	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bit	det
17	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 something	case
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 bit	nmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 something	acl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here			now	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past			last's new labourer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to labourer=Recipient
3	have	infinitive	you not said here	a bit of something				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
4	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «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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