Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 57

Then the wise brothers climbed to the very tip-top of the tree and there sat down, and then Ivan dragged himself up too, and the millstone after him.

Who acts: wise brothers, Ivan · What happens: climb, sit down, drag up · To what, where: millstone, tip top, Ivan

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 (wise brothers, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 climbed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brothers	amod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 climbed	nsubj
5	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	11 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 top	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	11 top	advmod
9	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 top	punct
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 sat	advmod
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	conj
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sat	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dragged	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dragged	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 dragged	advmod
22	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 dragged	nsubj
23	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 dragged	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 dragged	compound:prt
26	too	too	ADV	_	23 dragged	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 millstone	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 millstone	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 millstone	det
30	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obl
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 millstone	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	climb	past	the wise brothers	the millstone after Ivan	the tip top of the tree	then	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination
2	sit down	past	the wise brothers not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drag up	past	Ivan	Ivan		then	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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