--- title: He sat there, and sat and sat till he grew quite dull, and then he s… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He sat there, and sat and sat till he grew quite dull, and then he said to himself, "I'll play a bit on my fife, I haven't played for a long time." Who acts: Ivan. 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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 (Ivan), 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:pg29672:23:83 # text = He sat there, and sat and sat till he grew quite dull, and then he said to himself, "I'll play a bit on my fife, I haven't played for a long time." 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 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 9 till till SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 12 quite quite ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 fife fife NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 parataxis _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | Ivan | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sit** | past | Ivan *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sit** | past | Ivan *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grow** | past | Ivan | | | | | dull *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ivan | | Ivan | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **play** *in a quote* | future | Ivan | a bit | | my fife | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | | 7 | **not** **play** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Ivan | | | | time | | vn performance-26.7-1 «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. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/84/) - ↑ back to [The Two Princes, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/)