Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 96
There he sat then, and watched to see what the man would do.
Who acts: parson, man · What happens: sit, watch, see, do · 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 (parson, man), 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 sat | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 watched | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 watched | cc |
| 7 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 watched | xcomp |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 see | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | parson | there | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | watch | past | parson not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | parson not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | would | the man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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