Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 33

Into it the old demon inserted himself, and then he lay down just where the witch had been lying.

Who acts: old demon, crone, witch · What happens: insert, lie down, lie · To what, where: crone, skin

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (old demon, crone, witch), 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	Into	into	ADP	_	2 it	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 inserted	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 demon	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 demon	amod
5	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inserted	nsubj
6	inserted	insert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 inserted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lay	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 lay	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 inserted	parataxis
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 lay	advmod
14	just	just	ADV	_	20 lying	advmod
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 lying	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 witch	det
17	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lying	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lying	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 lying	aux
20	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 lay	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 inserted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insert	past	the old demon	crone	skin			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	lie down	past	crone			then	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie	past · perfect · progressive	the witch					vn assuming_position-50 «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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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