Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 46

Oh came out to see how he was getting on, and there he lay a-snoring.

Who acts: last · What happens: come out, see, get on, lie · To what, where: snoring · 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 (last), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 came	discourse
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	advcl
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 getting	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 getting	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 getting	aux
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 see	ccomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 getting	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lay	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 lay	expl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lay	nsubj
15	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 snoring	det
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 a	punct
18	snoring	snoring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	get on	past · progressive	last				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	lie	past	last	a snoring	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snoring=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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