Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 36

Then he began to descend the tree, but he stopped at every branch on his way down, while his sister kept on calling to him to come down quicker.

Who acts: Tsar, sister · What happens: begin, descend, stop, keep, call, come down · To what, where: tree, branch, Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tsar, sister), 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	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 descend	mark
5	descend	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 descend	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stopped	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 stopped	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stopped	nsubj
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 branch	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 branch	det
14	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stopped	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stopped	obl
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 way	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kept	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 kept	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sister	nmod:poss
22	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kept	nsubj
23	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stopped	conj
24	on	on	SCONJ	_	25 calling	mark
25	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 kept	xcomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 calling	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 come	mark
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 calling	advcl
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	quicker	quick	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 come	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Tsar				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	descend	to-infinitive	Tsar not said here	the tree					vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme
3	stop	past	Tsar			every branch		on Tsar's way	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at branch=Location
4	keep	past	Tsar's sister						tree rules
5	call	gerund	Tsar's sister not said here		Tsar				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	come down	to-infinitive	Tsar's sister not said here					down, quick property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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