Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 83

He sat there, and sat and sat till he grew quite dull, and then he said to himself, "I'll play a bit on my fife, I haven't played for a long time."

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: sit, grow, say, play, not play · To what, where: Ivan, bit, fife · Speech: someone speaks here

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sat	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sat	cc
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 grew	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grew	nsubj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	advcl
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 dull	advmod
13	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grew	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 said	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 play	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 play	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 play	nsubj
24	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 play	aux
25	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bit	det
27	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 play	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 fife	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 fife	nmod:poss
30	fife	fife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 play	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 played	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 played	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 played	aux
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 played	advmod
35	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 play	parataxis
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 time	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 time	det
38	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 time	amod
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 played	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Ivan			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	Ivan not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	Ivan not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past	Ivan					dull property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	Ivan		Ivan		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
6	play in a quote	future	Ivan	a bit		my fife			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
7	not play in a quote	present · perfect	Ivan				time		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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