--- title: He sat and sat, but nothing came, nothing came; he got drowsy, was n… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He sat and sat, but nothing came, nothing came; he got drowsy, was nodding off, when his gun fell off his knees, and he awoke with a start and watched more warily. Who acts: fool, nothing, gun. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fool, nothing, gun), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:18:15 # text = He sat and sat, but nothing came, nothing came; he got drowsy, was nodding off, when his gun fell off his knees, and he awoke with a start and watched more warily. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 nsubj _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 nsubj _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 drowsy drowsy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 nodding nod VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 off off ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 off off ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 38 advmod _ _ 38 warily warily ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | fool | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sit** | past | fool *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | past | nothing | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | nothing | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **get** | past | fool | | | | | drowsy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **nod off** | past · progressive | fool *not said here* | | | | | | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **fall off** | past | fool's gun | fool's knees | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient knee=Extent | | 8 | **awake** | past | fool | | | | | with a start | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with start=Instrument | | 9 | **watch** | past | fool *not said here* | | | | | warily *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/18/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/18/16/) - ↑ back to [The Three Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/18/)