Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 8
So at eventide they all lay down on the floor, and beside them they set a lighted taper hidden in an earthen pot.
Who acts: they · What happens: lay down, set, light, hide · To what, where: eventide, lighted taper, earthen pot
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 (they), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 eventide | case |
| 3 | eventide | eventide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 they | det |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 floor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 floor | det |
| 10 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 13 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 taper | det |
| 18 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 taper | amod |
| 19 | taper | taper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obj |
| 20 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 taper | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 pot | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pot | det |
| 23 | earthen | earthen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pot | amod |
| 24 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hidden | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | present | they | eventide | on the floor; down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at eventide=Destination | |||
| 2 | set | past | they | a lighted taper | beside them = they | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent taper=Theme beside they=Destination | |||
| 3 | light | participle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | hide | participle | a lighted taper not said here | a earthen pot | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pot=Location |
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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