Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 64

He entrenched himself behind his boards, stood there and began to read.

Who acts: Michael · What happens: entrench, stand, begin, read · To what, where: Michael, boards

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entrenched	nsubj
2	entrenched	entrench	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 entrenched	obj
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 boards	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boards	nmod:poss
6	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 entrenched	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entrenched	parataxis
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stood	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 read	mark
13	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entrenched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	entrench	past	Michael	Michael	Michael's boards	tree rules
2	stand	past			there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	read	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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