Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 58

They flew to the spot; beneath the ash-tree's roots they hid, and lay there as though they were dead.

Who acts: flies · What happens: fly, hide, lie, be · To what, where: roots

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flies), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 spot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spot	det
5	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 hid	punct
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	13 roots	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
9	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ash	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 roots	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 tree	case
13	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hid	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hid	nsubj
15	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lay	cc
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 lay	advmod
20	as	as	ADV	_	18 lay	advmod
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 dead	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dead	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dead	cop
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lay	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	flies = fly		to the spot result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spot=Result
2	hide	past	flies = fly	the ash tree's roots		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath root=Location
3	lie	past	flies = fly not said here	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	flies = fly		dead property	tree rules

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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