Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 105

But the little Tsar Novishny sat down behind the table and made merry.

Who acts: little Tsar · What happens: sit down, make · To what, where: table

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (little Tsar), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 sat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tsar	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Tsar	amod
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
5	Novishny	Novishny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Tsar	flat
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
13	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the little Tsar			the table			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind table=Location
2	make	past	the little Tsar not said here					merry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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