Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 89

Then he sat down and cried and wailed, "Alas, alas! what shall I do? '

Who acts: Michael · What happens: sit down, cry, wail, do · Speech: someone speaks here

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wailed	cc
8	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Alas	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Alas	punct
11	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	8 wailed	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Alas	punct
13	alas	alas	INTJ	_	11 Alas	discourse
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 do	obj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	sit down	past	Michael	then	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	Michael not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wail	past	Michael not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do in a quote	shall	Michael		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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