Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 59

She thought he was mad, but down she sat, and her children sat down all round her, and she waited to see what her husband would do next.

Who acts: wife, husband, children · What happens: think, be, sit, sit down, wait, see · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, husband, children), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
8	down	down	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 children	nmod:poss
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 sat	compound:prt
17	all	all	ADV	_	19 her	advmod
18	round	round	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waited	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 waited	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 waited	nsubj
23	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 waited	advcl
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 do	obj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 husband	nmod:poss
28	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 do	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	ccomp
31	next	next	ADV	_	30 do	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	wife		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	husband	mad property	tree rules
3	sit	past	wife	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit down	past	wife's children	round wife	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wait	past	wife		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	wife not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	do	would	wife's husband	next property	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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