Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 111

Ivan sat down on the ground near to the threshold and began to play.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: sit down, begin, play · To what, where: ground

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	near	near	ADV	_	10 threshold	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 threshold	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 threshold	det
10	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 play	mark
14	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Ivan	the ground	to the threshold	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
2	begin	past	Ivan not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	play	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «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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