Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 3

Then the Tsarivna sat down on his head, and the Tsarevko sat down beside her, till a humble-bee came flying up. "

Who acts: Tsarivna, Tsarevko, humble bee · What happens: sit down, come, fly up · To what, where: head

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (Tsarivna, Tsarevko, humble bee), 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	_	23 came	punct
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bee	det
20	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bee	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 humble	punct
22	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
24	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 came	xcomp
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 flying	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
27	"	"	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 her = she	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location
3	come	past	a humble bee				tree rules
4	fly up	gerund	a humble bee not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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