Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 86

There will be a bench for him to sit upon there," said they; "and he can take something to eat in his knapsack."

Who acts: man, bench · What happens: be, sit, say, take, eat · To what, where: something, knapsack · 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 (man, bench), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bench	det
5	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 sit	mark
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sit	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sit	mark
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bench	acl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 there	case
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 sit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sit	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 sit	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	conj
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 take	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 eat	mark
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 something	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 knapsack	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 knapsack	nmod:poss
27	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eat	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	future			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	to-infinitive	man			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon there=Location
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	a bench			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	can	man	something		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
5	eat	to-infinitive	man not said here	something not said here	man's knapsack	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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