Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 104

Then the Tsarivna sat down on his head, and the Tsarevko sat down beside her, till a horse came running up.

Who acts: Tsarivna, Tsarevko, horse · What happens: sit down, come, run up · To what, where: head

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (Tsarivna, Tsarevko, horse), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsarivna	det
3	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tsarevko	det
12	Tsarevko	Tsarevko	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	beside	beside	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
22	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 came	advcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 running	compound:prt
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the Tsarivna	Tsarivna's head	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location
2	sit down	past	the Tsarevko			beside child	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location
3	come	past	a horse				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run up	gerund	a horse not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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