Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 145

Ivan Golik was sitting in his own house at his ease, when the princess came flying in to him.

Who acts: Ivan, princess · What happens: sit, come, fly in · To what, where: own house, Ivan

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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, princess), 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	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	nsubj
2	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ivan	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 house	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 ease	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ease	nmod:poss
11	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	conj
17	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 came	xcomp
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 flying	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flying	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Ivan		Ivan's own house	at Ivan's ease	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location
2	come	past	the princess				tree rules
3	fly in	gerund	the princess not said here	Ivan			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result

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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