Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 32

Then she fell down on her knees and began to pray, and the Dragon popped one of his heads out of the cavern and said, "It is time I had my dinner now, and there's not so much as a breakfast here!"

Who acts: Princess, Dragon · What happens: fall down, begin, pray, pop, say, be · To what, where: knees, one, cavern, time, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Dragon), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fell	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 here	advcl
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 knees	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 knees	nmod:poss
7	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pray	mark
11	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 popped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 popped	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Dragon	det
15	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 popped	nsubj
16	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 popped	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 heads	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heads	nmod:poss
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 cavern	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 cavern	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cavern	det
24	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 popped	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 time	punct
29	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 time	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 time	cop
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 dinner	nmod:poss
35	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
36	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 had	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 's	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 's	cc
39	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	40 's	expl
40	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 here	cop
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 much	advmod
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 much	advmod
43	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 's	nsubj
44	as	as	ADP	_	46 breakfast	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 breakfast	det
46	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 much	nmod
47	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	47 here	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	Princess		Princess's knees	then	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
2	begin	past	Princess not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	pray	to-infinitive	Princess not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	pop	past	the Dragon	one of Prince's heads	the cavern			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	say speech: express	past	Princess not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is a in a quote	present	Dragon	time				tree rules
7	have in a quote	past	Princess	my dinner		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
8	is in a quote	present					here property	tree rules

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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