Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 66

He sat down there quite naked, for all his clothes had rotted and dropped off inside the fish.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: sit down, rot, drop off · To what, where: clothes

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 (Prince), 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	down	down	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sat	advmod
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 naked	advmod
6	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rotted	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 rotted	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 clothes	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 clothes	nmod:poss
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 rotted	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rotted	aux
13	rotted	rot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dropped	cc
15	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 rotted	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 dropped	compound:prt
17	inside	inside	ADP	_	19 fish	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fish	det
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dropped	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Prince		there	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rot	past · perfect · passive		Prince's clothes			tree rules
3	drop off	participle				inside the fish	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme inside fish=Trajectory

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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