Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 1

He raised his head and found himself sitting in a wood, and there he saw an armless man pursuing a hare.

Who acts: He, himself, armless man · What happens: raise, find, sit, see, pursue · To what, where: head, himself, wood, armless man, hare

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, himself, armless 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 raised	nsubj
2	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raised	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	conj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 found	obj
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 found	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 saw	expl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	parataxis
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	armless	armless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
20	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 man	acl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hare	det
22	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pursuing	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	raise	past	He	his head		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	find	past	He not said here	himself = he		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
3	sit	gerund	himself = he not said here		a wood	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
4	see	past	he	a armless man	there	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	pursue	gerund	a armless man not said here	a hare		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=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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