Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 15

One day they were all sitting down there when they heard something in the mountain crying, "Catch hold! catch hold! catch hold!"

Who acts: people · What happens: sit down, hear, cry, catch · To what, where: catch hold, something, mountain, hold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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 (people), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sitting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 sitting	advmod
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 sitting	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sitting	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 heard	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	parataxis
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 heard	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 mountain	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountain	det
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obl
16	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 heard	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Catch	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Catch	punct
19	Catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 crying	ccomp
20	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Catch	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct
22	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	compound
23	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct
25	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hold	compound
26	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past · progressive	people	catch hold	there	day	all, down property	tree rules
2	hear	past	people	something	the mountain			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
3	cry speech: express	gerund	people not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	catch in a quote	infinitive		hold				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=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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